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Far water cannot quench near fire.

—Japanese proverb

Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.

—Marcel Proust, 1919

Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

—Edith Hamilton, 1930

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746

Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

—George Eliot, 1857

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

—Alexander Pope, 1717

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

—Jane Austen, 1814

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

—Derek Walcott, 1986

And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BC

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928

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

—Samuel Johnson, 1751

Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.

—Dragging Canoe, 1775