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Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. 

—Aldous Huxley, 1929

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962

In my dreams I sleep with everybody.

—Anaïs Nin, 1933

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

—Alexander Pope, 1717

The sick man is the parasite of society.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889

The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.

—Nell Scovell, 1991

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908

Men are merriest when they are from home.

—William Shakespeare, 1599

Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.

—Aldo Leopold, 1933

There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.

—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

—Virginia Woolf, 1929

If you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.

—Aeschylus, 458 BC