Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
—James Madison, 1794
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
—John Updike, 1963I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693A world is sooner destroyed than made.
—Thomas Burnet, 1684When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.
—Marya Mannes, 1958Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain, c. 1900Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.
—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.
—Francis Galton, 1883