“But I can't help remembering that the world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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“He was weary of living in a perpetual tepid honeymoon, without the temperature of passion yet with all its exactions.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“The same vicious circle can be found in all analogous circumstances: when an individual or a group of individuals is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he or they are inferior.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“They were common everyday words—the familiar, vague sounds exchanged on every waking day of life. But what of that? They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“It's true that a drinker numbs his senses, it's true that he briefly escapes and rests, but he'll return from the delusion, finds everything to be unchanged, has not become wiser, has gathered no enlightenment,—has not risen several steps.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“the woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”

― John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment

“Then justice will be useful when money is useless.”

― Plato, The Republic

“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“All this she must possess . . . and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“LITIGATION, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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