The bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.
—Jane Austen, 1804
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
—Hannah Arendt, 1963I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCWhat a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
—Voltaire, 1723The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie knife.
—James Russell Lowell, 1873The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905Ocean. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Living is an ailment that is relieved every sixteen hours by sleep. A palliative. Death is the cure.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1790Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
—Wallace Stevens, 1952