“I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“She now knew the smallness of the passions that art exaggerated.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“The important thing . . . is not to be cured, but to live with one's ailments.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“The workings of the mind discover oft Dark deeds in darkness schemed, before the act. More hateful still the miscreant who seeks When caught, to make a virtue of a crime.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them; only small mean souls are otherwise.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“it is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“It is that our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“There's daggers in men's smiles.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“It was Twelfth Night, and the Saxons, who in these days of torment refreshed and fortified themselves by celebrating the feasts of the Church, were off their guard, engaged in pious exercises, or perhaps even drunk. Down swept the ravaging foe....”

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

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