“Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

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“You jus' stand there and don't say nothing. If he finds out what a crazy bastard you are, we won't get no job, but if he sees ya work before he hears ya talk, we're set.”

― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Without Christ there is no access to the Father, but futile rambling; no truth, but hypocrisy; no life, but eternal death.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

“But neither do these come within the compass of our mental powers; and it was the duty of philosophy to destroy the illusions which had their origin in misconceptions, whatever darling hopes and valued expectations may be ruined by its explanations.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“He knew her to be clever, to have a quick apprehension as well as good sense, and a fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Society is so general and so mixed there is no place left for retirement, and even in the home we live in public.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

― George Santayana, The Life of Reason

“Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.”

― Confucius, Analects

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