“Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used, till they are seasoned.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

“At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Our goal is more modest: we simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words?”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

“Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.”

― Jack London, White Fang

“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“Answering to this, all religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

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