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The mill will never grind with water that is past.

—Daniel McCallum, 1870

Moderation in all things.

—Terence, 166 BC

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

—Aphra Behn, 1677

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

—Zora Neale Hurston, 1937

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

—Hannah Arendt, 1978

The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970

If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

—Margaret Atwood, 2005

The brightest light burns the quickest.

—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.

—Chinua Achebe, 1958

War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.

—Jonathan Swift, 1697

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.

—Marcel Proust, 1919