“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.”

― William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

“I know enough of the world now, to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything; but it is matter of some surprise to me, even now, that I can have been so easily thrown away at such an age.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“They say, best men are moulded out of faults; and, for the most, become much more the better for being a little bad”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all some day. I think I shall write books,...”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“The wheel is come full circle”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Ender didn’t like fighting. He didn’t like Peter’s kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn’t like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Perhaps most people in the world aren't trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It's all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real bind. You'd better remember that. People actually prefer not being free.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“There's a capacity for appetite . . . that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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