“There is an art in lighting a fire. We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts. This is one of the useful arts.”

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

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“silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

― Plutarch, Moralia

“We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach.”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

“when the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.”

― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd;And I lov'd her that she did pity them.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

“People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“it would be better to know nothing than to know so little, so imperfectly”

― Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew

“Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news: give to a gracious message an host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell themselves when they be felt.”

― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“She always seemed to me, I fancy, more human than she was, perhaps because her affection was so human.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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