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—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903
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It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
—Wallace Stevens, 1952Reality is always the foe of famous names.
—Petrarch, 1337We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866Nobody, sir, dies willingly.
—Antiphanes, c. 370 BCAll of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949