“Isabel’s written in a foreign tongue. I can’t make her out.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness...”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Feelings are of four sorts: Sensations, Thoughts, Emotions, and Volitions. What are called Perceptions are merely a particular case of Belief, and Belief is a kind of thought. Actions are merely volitions followed by an effect.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

“Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.”

― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“which leads and drags on the world, is not locomotives, but ideas. Harness locomotives to ideas,—that is well done; but do not mistake the horse for the rider.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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