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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

—Edmund Burke, 1765

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

—Ernest Hemingway, 1954

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

—William Blake, 1793

I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.

—Jane Austen, c. 1798

Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

—Tacitus, c. 100

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

—Martin Luther, c. 1530

When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

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

—Iris Murdoch, 1978

Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.

—Aldo Leopold, 1933

It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.

—Aldous Huxley, 1925

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

—Willa Cather, 1918

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

—Susan Sontag, 1963

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

—Italo Calvino, 1957