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A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.

—Samuel Johnson, 1773

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.

—Henri Poincaré, 1903

I love everyone now that I have gray hair.

—Polatkin, c. 1855

The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.

—Herophilus, c. 290 BC

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

Brains are the only things worth having in this world.

—L. Frank Baum, 1899

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480

Time robs us of all, even of memory.

—Virgil, c. 40 BC

Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

—George Santayana, c. 1905

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

—Jane Austen, 1813

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.

—George Orwell, 1945