“Americans learn only from catastrophes and not from experience.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

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“If ye believed more in life, then would ye devote yourselves less to the momentary.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“I'm going to go on a diet. I'm going to become beautiful for you.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“If I knew words enough I could write you the longest love-letter in the world—and never get tired.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

“There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet—two clarionets.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“HAPPINESS, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“I’m putting you in Dink Meeker’s toon. From now on, as far as you’re concerned, Dink Meeker is God.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“I beg you would not put it into Lizzy's head to be vexed by his ill-treatment, for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“And, above all, do not be so ashamed of yourself, for that is at the root of it all.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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