“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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“In place of the King’s arbitrary despotism they proposed, not the withering anarchy of feudal separatism, but a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“In his fiery eyes of scorn and triumph, you then saw Ahab in all his fatal pride.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“When I was sixteen, I made the discovery—love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Things which are accidentally the causes of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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