“Believe me, it is a divine thing to lend,—to owe, an heroic virtue.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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“CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap—just ask my critics, who will moan about entire Canadian forests massacred in order to print my drivel.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“The true God has never yet smiled upon a person for his charity or virtues, but only for the sake of Christ's merits.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

“Boys enjoy the misery of their companions, at least village boys in that day did, and in later life I have found that all adults are not free from the peculiarity.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“A proposition must be plain to be adopted by the understanding of a people. A false notion which is clear and precise will always meet with a greater number of adherents in the world than a true principle which is obscure or involved.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much as possible. The Virgin Group has survived only because we have always kept tight control of our cash. But, likewise, I also know that...”

― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity

“Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and 'fall into a vortex', as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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