“The truth is that no mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.”

― Jack London, Martin Eden

“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.”

― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“where a faith has been trodden out, we may look for a mean and narrow population.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

“Do you not know that there are souls constantly tormented?”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.”

― Henry Kissinger, White House Years

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