“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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“Them that die'll be the lucky ones.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“It may therefore be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion, but when I see a fellow creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”

― Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”

― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“I see that I have begun to understand too much. And it doesn't do for man to taste of the tree of knowledge of good and evil…”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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