“The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

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“In the fairy tale an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened, and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten, and cities perish. A lamp is lit, and love flies away. A flower is plucked, and human lives are...”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Even in his youth Florentino Ariza climbed up and down stairs with special care, for he had always believed that old age began with one's first minor fall and that death came with the second.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“I hardly ever take a beast alive that I do not presently turn out again.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.”

― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“That she belov'd knows nought that knows not this: men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is.”

― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

“When we reflect on this struggle we may console ourselves with the full belief that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

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