“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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“We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself dictator, and died for it.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“They're all right in a way—I'm very good friends with them—pass the time of day when we meet, and all that—but they break out sometimes, there's no denying it, and then—well, you can't really trust them, and that's the fact.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. ”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.”

― William Shakespeare, Coriolanus

“In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.”

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

“You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“Every one desires happiness, but to secure it he must know what happiness is.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“There is a world elsewhere.”

― William Shakespeare, Coriolanus

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