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Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong.

—Rachel Carson, 1962

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

—Sigmund Freud, 1930

The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.

—Molière, 1666

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1911

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.

—Epicurus, c. 300 BC

Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.

—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BC

There is no small pleasure in sweet water.

—Ovid, c. 10

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940

The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.

—Samuel Purchas, 1613

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

—William Hazlitt, 1823