The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverb
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A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
—Willa Cather, 1918The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
—H.G. Wells, 1905Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Hazel Rochman, 1995