“the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile”

― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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“if the earlier forms of society are natural, so is the state, for it is the end of them, and the nature of a thing is its end.”

― Aristotle, Politics

“We could live offa the fatta the lan’.”

― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. —I shall feel it.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. DO NOT COMPLAIN. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change...”

― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god, told at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with suppleness...”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

“A kiss may ruin a human life”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead....”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any one.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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