“It was like trying to make a move at chess when you were already mated.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“At this point the march of invention brought a new factor upon the scene. Iron was dug and forged. Men armed with iron entered Britain from the Continent and killed the men of bronze. At this point we can plainly recognise across the vanished...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

“After all that has been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience, that man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self—all your wishes and precautions—to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call...”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“And I pray thee now tell me, for which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?”

― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

“How irksome is this music to my heart! When such strings jar, what hope of harmony?”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”

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

“Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them; and in the actions of all men, and especially of princes,...”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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