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“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“One must speak about serious things seriously.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“... the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God’s will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)

“Take heed of enemies reconciled, and of meat twice boiled.”
—Collected in John Ray, English Proverbs. English proverb (1670)