“It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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“In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.”

― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“You must also resist the temptation to stray from your guidelines: If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.”

― Confucius, Analects

“Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her—the opportunity, the courage.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“however great and stupendous the phenomena of nature, fixed physical laws will or may always explain them.”

― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say 'Holden Caulfield' on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say 'Fuck you.' I'm positive,...”

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

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself, and, by heavens! I tell you, it had gone mad.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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