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—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900
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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BCWhoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
—Cato the Elder, c. 184 BCThe family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1919It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
—The BibleI never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCNecessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCHe may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.
—Emperor Francis Joseph, c. 1850The whole secret of fencing consists but in two things, to give and not to receive.
—Molière, 1670