“It must be added that the men who most respect embryonic life are the same ones who do not hesitate to send adults to death in war.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion;”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any one.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“Did I not feel charmed at those truly genuine expressions of nature, which, though but little mirthful in reality, so often amused us?”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but...”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“We are often unable to tell people what they NEED to know, because they WANT to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“Books, for me, used to be a way to escape. I now consider reading a good book a sacred indulgence, a chance to be any place I choose. It is my absolute favorite way to spend time.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

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