“He values my understanding and talents more highly than my heart, but I am proud of the latter only.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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“But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a...”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Celerity is never more admir'd than by the negligent.”

― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness which Nature has kindly placed within our reach.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead....”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has...”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“The fickleness of women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.”

― George Bernard Shaw, The Philanderer

“Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

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