“There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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“Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“The only superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you; and besides, the Bible bids us return good for evil.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“That is the Earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of the hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upward from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing...”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

“Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

“There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Being on the fringes of the world is not the best place for someone who intends to re-create it: here again, to go beyond the given, one must be deeply rooted in it. Personal accomplishments are almost impossible in human categories collectively...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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