“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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“Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O no! it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth's unknown, although...”

― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“A grain in the balance may determine which individuals shall live and which shall die—which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“Words are wind . . . They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;—the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

“What we call morality is merely a desperate enterprise, a forlorn hope, on the part of our fellow creatures to reverse the order of the universe, which is strife and murder, the blind interplay of hostile forces.”

― Anatole France, The Gods Are Athirst

“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow — Hate's so easy compared”

― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

“When our hatred is too bitter it places us below those whom we hate.”

― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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