“The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more Perfection, the cause of Man's error and misery.”

― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

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“A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man’s life comes a day when it is not easy, a...”

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

“The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real importance.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without farther expense to anybody.”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Possibly this is woman's nature. When her passion is roused she loses her sensibility for all that is outside it. When, like the river, we women keep to our banks, we give nourishment with all that we have: when we overflow them we destroy with...”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“as happens in Wall Street all too often, what the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“There was some point in being afraid before, while one still had hope.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“No work with interest is ever hard.”

― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“'Why do nice women marry dull men?''Because intelligent men won't marry nice women.'”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.”

― Woody Allen, Side Effects

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