“The besom of reform has swept him out of office; and a worthier successor wears his dignity, and pockets his emoluments.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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“Language!—the blood of the soul, Sir! into which our thoughts run and out of which they grow!”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table

“the more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

“in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust, but to know.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“Make the advocacy of radical causes sufficiently remunerative, and the supply of advocates will be unlimited.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“If you’re in trouble or hurt or need—go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help—the only ones.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”

― Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking

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