“Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”

― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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

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

“false words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”

― Plato, Phaedo

“when you see the servant thinking more of his own interests than of yours, and seeking inwardly his own profit in everything, such a man will never make a good servant, nor will you ever be able to trust him”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but, contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. ”

― Neil Gaiman, Where do you get your ideas?

“We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“dying's none so dreadful; it's the funking makes it bad.”

― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.”

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

“In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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