“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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“Words, in their immediate Signification, are the sensible Signs of his Ideas who uses them.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him.”

― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

“If the gods think to speak outright to man, they will honorably speak outright; not shake their heads, and give an old wives' darkling hint.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Language!—the blood of the soul, Sir! into which our thoughts run and out of which they grow!”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table

“Even castles in the air can do with a fresh coat of paint.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border

“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”

― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

“people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.”

― William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

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