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The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

—Winston Churchill, 1943

Imitate the ass in his love to his master.

—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388

The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.

—Wallace Stevens, 1952

Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.

—Aldo Leopold, 1933

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

—Lord Byron, 1812

He who has nothing has no friends.

—Greek proverb

Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist. 

—Jacques Lacan

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

—Hannah Arendt, 1963

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

—Basho, c. 1690

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

—Patricia Highsmith, 1960

There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881