“Our life is frittered away by detail.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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“I mean, it’s a good job we’ve got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we’d really be in trouble!”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstructions in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought so far to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a...”

― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did, and never can, carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form...”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“being . . . rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”

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

“I try not to speak about the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.”

― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

“People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a...”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“However, procreation is nature’s principal occupation, and every man, whether he be young or old, when meeting every woman measures the potentiality of sex between them.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

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