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The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.

—Juvenal, c. 125

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mold, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.

—Edward Gibbon, c. 1790

To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.

—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960

Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.

—Juvenal, 128

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.

—Carl Sandburg, 1959

Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.

—Barbara Walters, 1975

Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.

—Marshall McLuhan, 1964

To gaze upon a drop of water is to behold the nature of all the waters of the universe.

—Huangbo Xiyun, c. 850

Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44

Nature is immovable.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC

Put national causes first and personal grudges last.

—Sima Qian, c. 91 BC

I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC