“Not guessing the cause, there was nothing to remind him that experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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“People do not know each other until they have drunk together. He who empties his glass empties his heart.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“what necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer—the Future so much brighter?”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It is not advisable . . . to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without...”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Books are like imprisoned souls until some one takes them down from a shelf and reads them.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the 'rules of the game' and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a...”

― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

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