“I never know what I mean in my telegrams—especially those I send from America. Clearness is too expensive.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Asking questions were the most important thing.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“In his fiery eyes of scorn and triumph, you then saw Ahab in all his fatal pride.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Because you make so little impression, you see. You get born and you try this and you don't know why only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move...”

― William Faulkner, Absalom

“Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.”

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

“We could live offa the fatta the lan’.”

― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.”

― Confucius, Analects

“But men are men; the best sometimes forget:”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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