“HAPPINESS, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because...”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“The fact is that the Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”

― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

“It is, that human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may...”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“It's only after you've lost everything . . . that you're free to do anything.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”

― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

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