“Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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“They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut...”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“When she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relapsed into silence and occupied himself with his own gloomy thoughts.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“People commonly travel around the world to see rivers and mountains, new stars, birds of rare plumage, queerly deformed fishes, ridiculous breeds of men—they abandon themselves to the bestial stupor which gapes at existence, and they think they...”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“Every major industrialized nation has A BEER (you can't be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need A BEER).”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“a prince should guard himself, above all things, against being despised and hated; and liberality leads you to both.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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