“supreme joy is a hundredfold greater in anticipation than in possession; its savour is greater while we wait for it than when it is ours.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

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“The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she murmured, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.”

― Arthur Miller, A View from the Bridge

“A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.”

― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

“Things blossom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.”

― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“This seemed simple as running water; but simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God’s mind—a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you’ve just made a down payment on a house.”

― Woody Allen, Getting Even

“The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can’t predict what they will do.”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

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