“The best thing for being sad . . . is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails.”

― T. H. White, The Once and Future King

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“Death is a cessation of the impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the strings which move the appetites, and of the discursive movements of the thoughts, and of the service to the flesh.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.”

― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the President’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may properly be charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities—you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.”

― Voltaire, Candide

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can't touch and see.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

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