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Everyone lives by selling something.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892

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, 1621

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

—Horace Walpole, 1745

Home is wherever I go.

—Indira Gandhi, 1955

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

—Virginia Woolf, 1921

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

—John Buchan, 1940

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943

Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.

—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BC

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

—Tony Blair, 2006

Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.

—Sophocles, c. 450 BC

I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1595

Many, 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