Far water cannot quench near fire.
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Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919Sooner 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, 1930An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BCI am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775