“Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“fools are made for wise men's profit.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“A lie by day, a lie by night, a lie in every touch and every look; a lie in every caress and every quarrel; a lie in every word and in every silence.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

― Plato, The Republic

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.”

― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven

“There's no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“I will beat thee into handsomeness.”

― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

“The longest way must have its close,—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”

― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

“Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime.”

― Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

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