“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“I go to the movies because — I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, so I go to the movies.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“If the peace presently to be made is to endure it must be a peace made secure by the organized major force of mankind.”

― Woodrow Wilson, A World League For Peace

“Capitalism – which in its purest form is entrepreneurism even among the poorest of the poor – does work; but those who make money from it should put back into society, not just sit on it as if they are hatching eggs.”

― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity

“Because world all twisted up and wrong, like distorted glass, only came back into focus if you looked at it through bottom of bottle.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“For the principle of equality begets two tendencies; the one leads men straight to independence, and may suddenly drive them into anarchy; the other conducts them by a longer, more secret, but more certain road, to servitude.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.”

― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

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