“She could no longer borrow from the future to help her through the present grief.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“nature does nothing uselessly.”

― Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

“Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”

― George Washington, State of the Union Address

“It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“He doesn’t know which is worse, a past he can’t regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there’s the future. Sheer vertigo.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“Monday morning found Tom Sawyer miserable. Monday morning always found him so—because it began another week's slow suffering in school. He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity...”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

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