“I wanted to know, not for the love of knowledge but as a defence against the world's contempt for the ignorant.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

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“'What happens when people open their hearts?' . . . 'They get better'”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy to invade his possessions.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The more the world speeds up the more it seems necessary that we should learn to pick out of the past the things that we feel were important and beautiful then. One of these things was a quality of tranquillity in people, which you rarely meet today.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Insanity in individuals is something rare—but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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