“Do my best all-round keep good company, read good books, love good things, and cultivate soul and body as faithfully and wisely as I can.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom

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“There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery, and that thy Teacher knows.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“God gave the day, God gave the strength. And the day and the strength were consecrated to labor, and that labor was its own reward.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“A philosopher is recognised by the fact that he shuns three brilliant and noisy things— fame, princes, and women: which is not to say that they do not come to him.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“So, that's what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did, and never can, carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form...”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

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