Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

—John Webster

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About John Webster

John Webster (c. 1578 – c. 1632) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often seen as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. His life and career overlapped with Shakespeare's.

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Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

—John Webster

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Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It’s amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn’t even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn’t even know had a particular smell.

—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed

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Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

—David T. Wolf

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It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere

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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

—Soren Kierkegaard

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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

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