“He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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“Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortably as possible?”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Either things are, and appear so to be; or else they are not, and do not appear to be; or else they are, and do not appear to be; or else they are not, and yet appear to be.”

― Epictetus, Discourses

“Most of these parties censure the conduct of the government, but they all hold that the government ought perpetually to act and interfere in everything that is done.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“complacency or self-congratulation can imperil our security as much as the weapons of tyranny. A moment of pause is not a promise of peace.”

― John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

“It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect the most efficient service.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

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