“Any man who has met with success, if he will be frank with himself, must admit that there has been a big element of fortune in the success.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

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“Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”

― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I don't ask for money. I don't ask for sexual favors. I don't ask for access to the hardware you design and sell. I just ask for the thing I gave you: source code that I can use myself.”

― Linus Torvalds,

“Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.”

― Confucius, Analects

“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish . . . know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of...”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid, sir . . . because I'm not myself, you see.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself, through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and snuffles, romance only sighs.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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