“the essential point in running a risk is that the returns justify it.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire

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“it is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“The one charm of the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is, therefore, quite correct to say that the senses do not err, not because they always judge correctly, but because they do not judge at all.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who,...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words?”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.”

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

“Make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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