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, 1804
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If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract—teach him to deduct.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921Man is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.
—Tertullian, c. 217That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989Labor is no disgrace.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCIn tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.
—Jonathan Schell, 2000I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871