“None are more readily taken with flattery than the proud, who wish to be first, but are not.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”

― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Thieves for their robbery have authority when judges steal themselves.”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.”

― Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address

“The people who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“For, although one may be very strong in armed forces, yet in entering a province one has always need of the goodwill of the natives.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“A liberal is fundamentally fearful of concentrated power. His objective is to preserve the maximum degree of freedom for each individual separately that is compatible with one man's freedom not interfering with other men's freedom. He believes...”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don't know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum—as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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