“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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“Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain’t always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

“It's in vain . . . to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.”

― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“I fear those big words . . . which make us so unhappy.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“And he sang to them, now in the elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together...”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Civil war—what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war between men, war between brothers?”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, makes the night morning and the noontide night.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard III

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