“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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“To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“Behold the beast, for which I have turned back; Do thou protect me from her, famous Sage, For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons—that's philosophy.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts, and all Roosevelt's friends know that his restless and combative energy was more than abnormal.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“The higher we are placed, the more humbly should we walk.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties

“I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“men in rage strike those that wish them best”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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