“We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship

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“We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly—all else is desperation.”

― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“Scotland . . . is too cold, a country for locusts, and too poor a country for thieves.”

― Walter Scott, Quentin Durward

“He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

“Words mean more than what is written on paper. They need the human voice to give them deeper meaning.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Wisdom . . . is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

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