“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of nature!”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four

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“Friend, we understand not one another: I am too courtly, and thou art too cunning.”

― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

“God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“People are like lice—they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can’t get permanently deloused.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain—why he did not instantly...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid? . . . That is the only time a man can be brave”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

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