“He who judges of morality judges of honour; and he who judges of honour finds his law in opinion.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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“Anyhow there was no bitterness in her; none of that sense of moral virtue which is so repulsive in good women. She enjoyed practically everything.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good...”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money—both useful things in their way ...”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“It was important . . . to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“In every respect the burthen is hard on those who attack an almost universal opinion.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

“And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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