“It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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“'Build a house? . . . For Wendy? . . . Why, she is only a girl!' 'That . . . is why we are her servants.'”

― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“In America the majority raises very formidable barriers to the liberty of opinion: within these barriers an author may write whatever he pleases, but he will repent it if he ever step beyond them.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“He had a theory, Walt, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans, all have different names, but they all contain water.”

― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

“Equality is to be found only in the spiritual dignity of man, and that will only be understood among us.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“He was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares long, long, forgotten!”

― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do, and there is surely no one who thinks that a man became great because he won the great prize in the lottery.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“The last and most successful one was that of tarring his fence all around; after which, if a slave was caught with any tar upon his person, it was deemed sufficient proof that he had either been into the garden, or had tried to get in.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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