I Cannot Live Without Books

"I cannot live without books."

- Thomas Jefferson

"...It's takes strength..."

"It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes strength to be gentle and kind
Over, over, over, over
It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind"

- The Smiths, I Know It's Over

Opera

"She sang, of course, 'M'ama!' and not 'he loves me,' since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of the English-speaking audiences."

- Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence