“The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

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“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Over the Teacups

“Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by laxity of morals amongst all.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

“my heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope in life, beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”

― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“Horrible my iniquities had been; But Infinite Goodness hath such ample arms, That it receives whatever turns to it.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four. Inefficient nations were always conquered sooner or later, and the struggle for efficiency...”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Our age is the age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds of exemption from the examination of this tribunal.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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