“It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect the most efficient service.”

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

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“Dispute not with her,—she is lunatic.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“It takes two to make an accident.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

“Life, I’ve learned, is never fair. If people teach anything in school, that should be it.”

― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth; seeing none before myself had ever written of that country, wherein are above five-and-twenty kingdoms...”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“That government is best which governs least”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“I'm not sentimental—I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last—the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding that they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

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