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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.

—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856

A bull contents himself with one meadow, and one forest is enough for a thousand elephants; but the little body of a man devours more than all other living creatures.

—Seneca the Younger, c. 64

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

—Wendell Phillips, 1859

Repetition is the mother of education.

—Jean Paul, 1807

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all. 

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.

—John Fletcher, 1625

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

Fear has a smell, as love does.

—Margaret Atwood, 1972

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967

Memory is more indelible than ink.

—Anita Loos, 1974

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

—Kathleen Norris, 1931