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He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.

—Italian proverb

I wants to make your flesh creep.

—Charles Dickens, 1837

“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

—Milan Kundera, 1990

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

—André Gide, 1926

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

—Voltaire, 1770

God is making commerce his missionary.

—Joseph Cook, c. 1877

Strangers are an endangered species.

—Adrienne Rich, 1980

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

—Confucius, c. 500 BC

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

—George Eliot, 1876

The best quarantine is hygiene.

—Richard D. Arnold, 1871

Words pay no debts.

—William Shakespeare, 1601

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

—John Maynard Keynes, 1917