“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

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“Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. For my part, I read only to please myself.”

― Voltaire, Candide

“Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself dictator, and died for it.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“In the United States each separate journal exercises but little authority, but the power of the periodical press is only second to that of the people.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesn't begin at all.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“A great calamity, for instance, is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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