“We were closely pinched to bring our wants within our means; but the jail stood over the way, and I had a wholesome dread of the consequences of running in debt.”

― Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom

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“All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another— their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“There are darknesses in life, and there are lights. You are one of the lights.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.”

― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“Early to bed and early to rise . . . makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

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