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Happiness is a warm puppy.

—Charles Schulz, 1971

The oldest voice in the world is the wind.

—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

—Anaïs Nin, 1950

There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.

—William Howard Taft, 1921

They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.

—Virgil, c. 30 BC

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.

—William Hazlitt, 1822

A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

—Rebecca West, 1959

It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963

I proclaim night more truthful than the day.

—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.

—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

—Samuel Johnson, 1751

All pain is one malady with many names.

—Antiphanes, c. 400 BC