“She had always been fond of history, and here was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“Slavery, as we shall afterwards show, dishonors labor; it introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind, and benumbs the activity of man.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is...”

― Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Chance for Peace

“Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“We shall be judged more by what we do at home than by what we preach abroad.”

― John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“A fate is not a punishment.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“I am consequently proud—proud as Lucifer.”

― Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat...”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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