“the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this fact is recognized,—that the human race has been treated harshly, but that it has progressed.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Her reputation of reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic; it was supposed to engender difficult questions and to keep the conversation at a low temperature.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“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?

“Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Most people don’t know how to appreciate silence. They can’t help talking.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

“everything is dear if you don't want it.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own...”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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