“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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“He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with the one than happiness with the other.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“The most profound sentence ever written, Temple said with enthusiasm, is the sentence at the end of the zoology. Reproduction is the beginning of death.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self—all your wishes and precautions—to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call...”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“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

“And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be—and whenever I look up there will be you.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“All our knowledge begins with sense, proceeds thence to understanding, and ends with reason, beyond which nothing higher can be discovered in the human mind for elaborating the matter of intuition and subjecting it to the highest unity of thought.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm bound to say that I require an explanation of his words.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand…”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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