“I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.”

― Confucius, Analects

“I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“Ah, does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“They're all right in a way—I'm very good friends with them—pass the time of day when we meet, and all that—but they break out sometimes, there's no denying it, and then—well, you can't really trust them, and that's the fact.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of both were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a...”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“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

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