“Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy?”

― William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

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“Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

“Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality, to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“When I use a word . . . it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

“It doesn’t matter that you didn’t believe in us . . . We believed in you.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family and the school.”

― Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power

“the Master takes action by letting things take their course. He remains as calm at the end as at the beginning. He has nothing, thus has nothing to lose.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one's thoughts be diverted by anything, by meals, by a fly...”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“It was one of the queer things of life that you saw a person every day for months and were so intimate with him that you could not imagine existence without him; then separation came, and everything went on in the same way, and the companion who...”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Work without love is slavery.”

― Mother Teresa, Where There Is Love

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! —I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart!”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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