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—Mark Twain, 1873
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To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling.
—Harriet Jacobs, 1861I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles Lindbergh, 1948Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCThe affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1929