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I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

The art of invention grows young with the things invented.

—Francis Bacon, 1605

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.

—Iris Murdoch, 1978

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962

People living deeply have no fear of death.

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.

—Walter Bagehot, 1863

There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1665

Life is no way to treat an animal.

—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

—Francis Grose, 1787

It is a luxury to be understood.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1831

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.

—Sarah Williams, 1868