“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

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“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“I've chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I'm only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my...”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Fine to think we can go on being socially useful even after we're dead. Making plants grow.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“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

“he who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself.”

― Plato, The Republic

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Grief makes one hour ten.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“Often do I strive to allay the burning fever of my blood; and you have never witnessed anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as my heart.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drank, the very air I breathed, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor...”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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