“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! alas! she must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Early to bed and early to rise . . . makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce and worldly pursuits.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“When you’re young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you’re laughing again.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”

“Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

― Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante

“O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”

― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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