“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;— this is knowledge.”

― Confucius, Analects

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“the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true, and we could live in them?”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Isabel’s written in a foreign tongue. I can’t make her out.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“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

“A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“if there is one thing one can always yearn for and sometimes attain, it is human love.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“People commonly travel around the world to see rivers and mountains, new stars, birds of rare plumage, queerly deformed fishes, ridiculous breeds of men—they abandon themselves to the bestial stupor which gapes at existence, and they think they...”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“That the knowledge at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal, and not of aught perishing and transient.”

― Plato, The Republic

“silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

― Plutarch, Moralia

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