“Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!”

― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

“Killing rips the soul apart.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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