“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

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“the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Reading was the only amusement I allow'd myself. I spent no time in taverns, games, or frolicks of any kind; and my industry in my business continu'd as indefatigable as it was necessary.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to...”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Where are the cartographers of human purpose? Where are the visions of hopeful futures, of technology as a tool for human betterment and not a gun on hair trigger pointed at our heads?”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

“Well, thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition; and where all the superior ranks of people were secured from it, the inferior ranks could not be much exposed to it.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“which leads and drags on the world, is not locomotives, but ideas. Harness locomotives to ideas,—that is well done; but do not mistake the horse for the rider.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

“Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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