Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940
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When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing—that’s the Lord’s test.
—Mahalia Jackson, 1966There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
—Booth Tarkington, 1914The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888The gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641There is a city in which you find everything you desire—handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind—all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.
—Rumi, c. 1250The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844