“the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands.”

― Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

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“when a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“This, I think, I may at least say, that we should have a great many fewer disputes in the world, if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only; and not for things themselves.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“By the time you read this, you’ll be older than you remember.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.”

― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.”

― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do”

― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens

“Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of anybody else. Everything is so insipid, so uninteresting, that does not relate to the beloved object!”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Business . . . may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

“The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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