“Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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“Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“But kings and mightiest potentates must die, for that's the end of human misery.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“There are just some kind of men who—who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worst of all, no way out.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.”

― Linus Torvalds,

“One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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