“We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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“Everyone loved her, but her greatest sorrow was that she could find no one to love in return, since all the men were much too stupid and ugly to mate with one so beautiful and wise.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“That is why my devotion to Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.”

― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

“There is no cause from whose nature some effect does not follow.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all some day. I think I shall write books,...”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“But I can't help remembering that the world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”

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

“O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st - A...”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Proper deformity seems not in the fiend so horrid as in woman.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

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