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How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.

—Charles Lamb, 1833

What hath night to do with sleep?

—John Milton, 1637

The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.

—Aldous Huxley, 1956

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

—Philip Roth, 1969

The god of music dwelleth out of doors.

—Edith M. Thomas, 1887

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

—Erasmus, 1518

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

—James Fenimore Cooper, 1838

All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.

—James Joyce, 1939

Exchange is no robbery.

—German proverb

If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1600

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

—Mark Twain, 1894

The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

—Ernest Hemingway, 1929