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—Dylan Thomas, 1936
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I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
—John Quincy Adams, 1844The whole secret of fencing consists but in two things, to give and not to receive.
—Molière, 1670Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
—Xenocrates, c. 350 BCThe enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760