Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932
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Vox populi, vox humbug.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BCEvery house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.
—John Florio, 1578God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
—J.M. Barrie, 1922For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCHunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843