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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#allegiance #behind #government #invisible #ostensible

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#each #his #own #probably #sits

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#consequences #down #everyone #later #sits

I'm not one of those people who sits at dinner on their iPhone all night. I'm either working or I'm not. I've gone down that path where you sleep with your phone beside the bed and send an email just before you put your head down and check everything again when you wake up, and I don't like it. ↗

— Curtis Stone

#all night #bed #before #beside #check

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#another #ceiling #could #cross #down

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#darkness #own #poet #sings #sits

My father used to say superior people never make long visits. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#long #make #never #people #say

I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family. ↗

— Francois Gautier

#except #family #france #going #i

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. ↗