“EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death; and that was given.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“War is a contagion, whether it be declared or undeclared.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quarantine Speech

“I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“I can’t sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

“The future is there . . . looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”

― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“FUTURE, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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