“Every friend in power is a friend lost.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“And the upshot of this modern attitude is really this: that men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“It is, that human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may...”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

“When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once...”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“If love be rough with you, be rough with love.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“The sun and stars that float in the open air,. . . surely the drift of them is something grand,I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness”

― Walt Whitman, A Song for Occupations

“It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.”

― Aristotle, Politics

“The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.”

― Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race

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