“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

“if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

“Exiles notoriously feed much on hopes, and are unlikely to stay in banishment unless they are obliged.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric...”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“The justice which began with the maxim, 'Everything can be paid off, everything must be paid off,' ends with connivance at the escape of those who cannot pay to escape—it ends, like every good thing on earth, by destroying itself.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality

“Potential has a shelf life.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“For she had eyes and chose me.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

“The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“I say, then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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