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There are two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imagination.

— Leigh Hunt Attributed

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The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Table-Talk (1851)

Stolen sweets are always sweeter,
Stolen kisses much completer,
Stolen looks are nice in chapels,
Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

The two divinest things this world has got,
A lovely woman in a rural spot!

The Story of Rimini (1816)

Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

Table-Talk (1851)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.

William Shakespeare As You Like It (1599)

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

Daniel Webster

Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

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