Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

    ~~~ Anthony Scalia #

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

    ~~~ Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain #

Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?

   ~~~ Hamlet #

It’s some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it’s others has to know why it is.

   ~~~ The Misfit in “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” Flannery O’Connor
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dilige, et quod uis fac: siue taceas, dilectione taceas; siue clames, dilectione clames; siue emendes, dilectione emendes; siue parcas, dilectione parcas: radix sit intus dilectionis, non potest de ista radice nisi bonum existere.
[Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you correct, do it out of love. If you show mercy, do it out of love. Let the root of love be within. From this root nothing can come but good.]

   ~~~In Epistolam Ioannis Ad Parthos, St. Augustine
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So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.

    ~~~ The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco #

Good sense is mankind's most equitably divided endowment, for everyone thinks he is so abundantly provided with it that even those with the most insatiable appetites and most difficult to please in other ways do not want more than they have of this.

   ~~~ Discourse on Method, René Descartes #

Still, living displaces false sentiments.
   ~~~ "Early Purges", Seamus Heaney #