“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Art

“The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvelous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken.”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“Nor had I reflected upon this at first, and I rested in the shade of that ideal happiness as beneath that of the manchineel tree, without foreseeing the consequences.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”

― Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great

“Don't roust your faith bird-high an' you won't do no crawlin' with the worms.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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