“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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“A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

“In this world one is seldom reduced to make a selection between two alternatives. There are as many varieties of conduct and opinion as there are turns of feature between an aquiline nose and a flat one.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“I'm not interested in the happiness of all men, but only in the happiness of each.”

― Boris Vian, Froth on the Daydream

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Let those who are snake-charmers play with snakes; if harm comes to them, they are prepared for it. But these boys are so innocent, all the world is ready with its blessing to protect them. They play with a snake not knowing its nature, and when...”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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