“No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; in brief, sir, study what you most affect.”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

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“Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly is about to enter our eye.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

“In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“All her virtue returned, because her love was waning.”

― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“They’re a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It’s said that without whisky to soak and soften the world, they’d kill themselves.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“You know, it’s quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don’t do it.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Noble dragons don’t have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

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