“The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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“It is only a novel . . . or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and...”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her, and to whom she is grateful.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”

― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Sure enough, of all paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path for every man; a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do”

― Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present

“In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“For the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not. Remember that all is opinion.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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