A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816
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Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000What is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.
—Rwandan proverbTrue friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.
—Isabel Allende, 2000He laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverbNo man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1809