“A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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“What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you?”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“You're an old woman, Emily, and there's no fool like an old fool.”

― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“Constancy in love is a good thing, but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.”

― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we...”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

“Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things which we create in common.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

“with freedom come responsibilities”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“like the eagle, his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage.”

― William Faulkner, Light in August

“Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honour peereth in the meanest habit.”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“I'd rather be myself . . . Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be—and whenever I look up there will be you.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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