“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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“Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else it must be in my own way.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God’s mind—a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you’ve just made a down payment on a house.”

― Woody Allen, Getting Even

“the time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in the mantle of virtue.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

“It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Grief makes one hour ten.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“Men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle! How fortunate was he who lived in the peace and security of the great forest!”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

“They weren’t making much sense; she decided they were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses but which can go on forever, if both parties are willing.”

― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Katie, why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world—to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we...”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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