“Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth”

― George Eliot, Adam Bede

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“They were both in their own ways earnest; they both wanted to achieve some worthy end or other, change the world for the better. Such alluring, such perilous ideals!”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“I am far from pretending that wives are in general no better treated than slaves; but no slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

“Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortably as possible?”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.”

― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Since when . . . do you have to tell the enemy when he has won?”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

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