“However, our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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“There is only one thing I should like better; and that would be to see the Philosopher making the same sort of meal himself, with the same relish.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward to what they were before.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“It is a good lesson—though it may often be a hard one—for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are...”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”

― Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

“A considerable period elapsed before I discovered one of the causes of the uneasiness of this amiable family: it was poverty, and they suffered that evil in a very distressing degree.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and wilful as a bird's heart?”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Simple, generous goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Men

“No one should be alone in their old age, he thought. But it is unavoidable.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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