“Let none admire that riches grow in Hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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“ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick

“Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.”

― William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

“Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”

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

“But Nature, it seems, was at the bottom of the affair, and she gains her ends with dogs as well as with men, making us do as she likes, shoving and pulling us along her ways, however rough, all but killing us at times in getting her lessons...”

― John Muir, Stickeen

“But beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty—it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life—froze it.”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man’s part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“All the conditions of happiness are realised in the life of the man of science.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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