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“Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?” he asked. Yellow hair like hers was rare among the Greeks. Though some people say that Helen of Troy . . .”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“He was sure people detested accountants; they were boring. In fact, he had put down his profession as an airline pilot on the form he had filled in for a dating agency. As an airline pilot you could be away just the right amount of time, when you needed a break from your love life, without facing awkward questions from her when you got back.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“¡Oh ser ignorante y obstinado! Os creéis la perfección de la existencia y sois en realidad el más imperfecto y estúpido de todos los seres. ¡Os ufanáis de ver, cuando no podéis ver, más que un punto! Os vanagloráis de deducir la existencia de una línea recta; pero yo puedo ver líneas rectas y deducir la existencia de ángulos, triángulos, cuadrados, pentágonos, hexágonos e incluso círculos. ¿Por qué desperdiciar más palabras? Basta con decir que soy la plenitud de vuestro yo incompleto. Vois sois una línea, pero yo soy una línea de líneas, lo que en mi país se llama un cuadrado: e incluso yo, pese a ser infinitamente superior a vos, soy poca cosa entre los grandes nobles de Planilandia, de donde he venido a visitaros, con la esperanza de iluminar vuestra ignorancia.”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Planilandia

“Four types of people seek a connection with Me: One, the world-weary — people who worship God for the alleviation of physical or mental agony, or to be released from fears and adversity; two, the seekers of happiness through worldly things — people who pray to God to obtain wealth, family, power, prestige, and so forth; three, the seekers of spiritual advancement — people whose motive for connecting with Divinity is to gain knowledge and experience to aid their self-realization; four,
the wise — people who truly know the Atma (Self), who know that God alone exists, and whose only impulse is for the Divine and nothing else.”
― The Bhagavad Gita

“Penalties were established for refusal to work, for leaving a place of employment to seek higher pay, and for the offer of higher pay by employers. Proclaimed when Parliament was not sitting, the ordinance was reissued in 1351 as the Statute of Laborers.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“Marriage and piracy do not go together.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

“Heaven help us! The girls have only to turn the tables,and say of one of their own sex,'She is as vain as a man,' and they will have perfect reason. The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilets, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascinations, as any coquette in the world.”
― Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

“I prefer peace, but if trouble must come, let it be in my time that my children may know peace.”
― Thomas Payne