“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

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“Very nice, but you know the old saying—even a stopped clock gets it right twice a day.”

― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again—and that is well; but also she will...”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“If a man is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we were to excuse a bad man on the same grounds we would be laughed at.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“Because he believes in himself, he doesn't try to convince others. Because he is content with himself, he doesn't need others' approval. Because he accepts himself, the whole world accepts him.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their...”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities. Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.”

― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

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