“Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonour, must have a proud and a powerful soul.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle

“Doubt . . . may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“Bows and arrows were sufficient for centuries to stain the earth with blood. Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race—unhappily.”

― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

“an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“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

“Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

“Besides this, one cannot by fair dealing, and without injury to others, satisfy the nobles, but you can satisfy the people, for their object is more righteous than that of the nobles, the latter wishing to oppress, while the former only desire...”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“There are some bad people in the world, and the reason they’re not in jail is because they’ve learned how to hide it.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

“How useful an office one's friends perform when they recall us.”

― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Asking questions were the most important thing.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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