“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”

― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History

“A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“The only happy marriages I know are marriages of prudence.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Alone —free — the human being is always defeated. It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“every man must have somewhere to turn...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“I never did anything in life to any one's imagination.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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