“The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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“A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.”

― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.”

― George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty

“The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“Love is a battle . . . And I plan to go on fighting. To the end.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness...”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Despair has its own calms.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Remember, you have been given absolute power to bind and to loose, but the greater the power, the more terrible its responsibility.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“A philosopher is recognised by the fact that he shuns three brilliant and noisy things— fame, princes, and women: which is not to say that they do not come to him.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality

“The cruelty of fooled honesty is often great after enlightenment, and it was mighty in Clare now.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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