Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892
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Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods—restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
—Robert Burton, 1621It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
—John Buchan, 1940To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCThis is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.
—Sophocles, c. 450 BCI count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.
—Hans Christian Andersen, 1837