“A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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“The truth seems to be, however, that, when he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his volume, or never take it up, but the few who will understand him, better than most of his schoolmates...”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“I also became a poet and for one year lived in a paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Reading was the only amusement I allow'd myself. I spent no time in taverns, games, or frolicks of any kind; and my industry in my business continu'd as indefatigable as it was necessary.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Never trust any ruler who puts his faith in tunnels and bunkers and escape routes. The chances are that his heart isn’t in the job.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books,But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only...”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

“Such is life; and we are but as grass that is cut down, and put into the oven and baked.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

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