“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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“To paraphrase Clemenceau, money is much too serious a matter to be left to the Central Bankers.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbors—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution; it's their best advertising.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“The will of man is by his reason sway'd; And reason says you are the worthier maid.”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

“They say that rather than cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. They don't mention anything about cursing a lack of candles.”

― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

“I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

“For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“ I am glad that you are here with me . . . Here at the end of all things, Sam.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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