“Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“there is not a single one of those books which does not contradict some other book; so that by the time one has read them all one does not know what to think about anything.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

“Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 'I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she could.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“What we call morality is merely a desperate enterprise, a forlorn hope, on the part of our fellow creatures to reverse the order of the universe, which is strife and murder, the blind interplay of hostile forces.”

― Anatole France, The Gods Are Athirst

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things — terrible, yes, but great.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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