“O dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can tickle where she wounds!”

― William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

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“Then, in happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, O my friend, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful...”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“Real respect takes longer than official respect.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“To make oneself object, to make oneself passive, is very different from being a passive object: a woman in love is neither asleep nor a corpse; there is a surge in her that ceaselessly falls and rises: it is this surge that creates the spell that...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“This patriotism is sometimes stimulated by religious enthusiasm, and then it is capable of making the most prodigious efforts. It is in itself a kind of religion; it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and of sentiment.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“A love of nature keeps no factories busy.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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