“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

― Jane Austen, Emma

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“when you see the servant thinking more of his own interests than of yours, and seeking inwardly his own profit in everything, such a man will never make a good servant, nor will you ever be able to trust him”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Americans . . . are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“So little knows any, but God alone, to value right the good before him, but perverts best things to worst abuse, or to their meanest use.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“It is not violence that best overcomes hate—nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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