“It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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“What do men know about women's martyrdoms? We should go mad had we to endure the hundredth part of those daily pains which are meekly borne by many women.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Kurtz—it was ordered I should never betray him—it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do”

― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“Women, in whom life lingers and dwells more immediately, more fruitfully, and more confidently, must surely have become riper and more human in their depths than light, easygoing man, who is not pulled down beneath the surface of life by the...”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Proper deformity seems not in the fiend so horrid as in woman.”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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