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
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Imitate the ass in his love to his master.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
—Wallace Stevens, 1952Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbLove is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanNo punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
—Hannah Arendt, 1963To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995Youth 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