“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“you're over-civilized. You should look on death as the Oriental does. It's a mere incident—hardly noticeable.”

― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

“Life wasn't made to be easy on folks: they wouldn't ever have any reason to be good and die.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.”

― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“We say Love is blind because his eyes are better than ours, and he perceives relations which we cannot discern.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can't see—that's my idea of happiness.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Most of these parties censure the conduct of the government, but they all hold that the government ought perpetually to act and interfere in everything that is done.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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