“things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse—hunger, hardship, and disappointment being . . . the unalterable law of life.”

― George Orwell, Animal Farm

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“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“men who take great risks often suffer great consequences.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again—and that is well; but also she will...”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Stupidity is much the same all the world over.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

“That death's unnatural that kills for loving.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

“But with the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours.”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

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