At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925
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Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
—Gore Vidal, 1973He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
—Ovid, c. 8Peace is a natural effect of trade.
—Montesquieu, 1748For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967