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• Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

  Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Glory Road (1963)

  • Animals
  • Women

• Men always want to be a woman’s first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man’s last romance.

  Oscar Wilde1854–1900

  • Women

• Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

  Ian Fleming1908–1964

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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