“it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.”

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“The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look at Père-Lachaise! The great, those who are rich, are up above, in the acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The little people, the poor, the unhappy,...”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wraps my existence about you, and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Book! you lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“That is just what rich people are, . . . they snub you and then they think they can make up for everything by a few monkey tricks.”

― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell.”

― Voltaire, Candide

“This, I think, I may at least say, that we should have a great many fewer disputes in the world, if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only; and not for things themselves.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“To 'Know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment, which it has taken us, who are your elders, months to perfect.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.”

― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

“They say, best men are moulded out of faults; and, for the most, become much more the better for being a little bad”

― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and...”

― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

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