We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963
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The bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.
—Jane Austen, 1804Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCOne cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950There 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. 1250There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCNothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989