“We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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“A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Still am I the richest and most to be envied—I, the lonesomest one!”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“The simplicity of noun-verb construction is useful—at the very least it can provide a safety net for your writing.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“With a woman who does not love us, as with someone who has died, the knowledge that there is nothing left to hope for does not prevent us from going on waiting.”

― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“Men seek but one thing in life—their pleasure.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short, for they have forgotten what this country has already done, what free men and women can achieve...”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“In the highly mechanised countries, thanks to tinned food, cold storage, synthetic flavouring matters, etc., the palate is almost a dead organ.”

― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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