“Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends: for this reason I have spoken it.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“But man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

“desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it—but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the...”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Swann had learned by experience that the good intentions of a third party are powerless to control a woman who is annoyed to find herself pursued even into a ball-room by a man whom she does not love. Too often, the kind friend comes down again...”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms.”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“And now we are all scattered, and for many a long day loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Cato . . . used to assert, also, that wise men profited more by fools, than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.”

― Plutarch, Parallel Lives

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