“Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

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“How hard it is for women to keep counsel!”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“Since all is well, keep it so: wake not a sleeping wolf.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

“They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well.”

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

“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“To a great mind, nothing is little”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

“She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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