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He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

—Benjamin Franklin, 1786

Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.

—Anthony Doerr, 2006

A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

—Victor Hugo, 1862

We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.

—Joseph Addison, 1711

Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.

—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BC

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.

—Eva Perón, 1949

Wherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.

—James Madison, 1783

Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1600

Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

—Edith Hamilton, 1930

There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.

—Catullus, c. 60 BC

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1734

To live outside the law you must be honest.  

—Bob Dylan, 1966

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.

—Marcel Proust, 1919