The bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.
—Jane Austen, 1804
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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
—Dean Acheson, 1970The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
—Karl Kraus, 1912To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980Memory is more indelible than ink.
—Anita Loos, 1974Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E.M. Forster, 1951Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
—Daniel Boorstin, 1978Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
—Walter Scott, 1823