I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798
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Appearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCDrive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCThe belly is the teacher of the arts and bestower of invention.
—Persius, c. 55Education—a debt due from present to future generations.
—George Peabody, 1852There are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.
—Increase Mather, 1684Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962To gaze upon a drop of water is to behold the nature of all the waters of the universe.
—Huangbo Xiyun, c. 850It is a luxury to be understood.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1831‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596