“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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“I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Intellect

“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“What is now proved was once, only imagined.”

― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“You’re mine . . . Mine, as I’m yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we’ll live.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view...”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Every noble work is at first impossible.”

― Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present

“The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of...”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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