“I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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“One of the most important questions a woman can ask herself: What do I really want—and what is my spirit telling me is the best way to proceed?”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“If ice can burn . . . then love and hate can mate.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have acquired an entirely different kind of culture, literary or artistic, of which they make no use in the specialised...”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise any one who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking...”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“it was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.”

― Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

“We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness.”

― Voltaire, Candide

“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?Deny thy father and refuse thy name;Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,And I'll no longer be a Capulet.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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