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One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

—Chinese proverb

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

—Maya Angelou, 1986

My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

—Erica Jong, 1973

A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.

—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BC

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

—Pliny the Elder, c. 77

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

—E.M. Forster, 1951

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.

—Aldous Huxley, 1925

I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.

—Anna Sewell, 1877

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

Time robs us of all, even of memory.

—Virgil, c. 40 BC