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I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844

New things are always ugly.

—Willa Cather, 1921

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

—L.P. Hartley, 1953

Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.

—Colette, 1944

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

—Molière, 1666

Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.

—Voltaire, 1759

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1886

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.

—Charles Lamb, 1810

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947

So many men, so many opinions.

—Terence, 161 BC

The gratitude is greater than the gift.

—Pierre Corneille, 1641

The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.

—Archilochus, c. 650 BC

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.

—Francis Bacon, 1605