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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

—Pablo Picasso, 1929

Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.

—Alexandre Dumas, 1857

If I lose at play, I blaspheme, and if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So that God is always sure to be the loser.

—John Donne, 1623

The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.

—Francis Galton, 1883

Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

—Jane Austen, 1811

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

—Calvin Coolidge, 1932

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

—Cicero, 44 BC

That which is evil is soon learned. 

—John Ray, 1670

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

—Gertrude Stein, 1937

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

—Anthony Trollope, 1859

Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

—D.H. Lawrence, 1928

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

—John Locke, 1689