“The cruelty of fooled honesty is often great after enlightenment, and it was mighty in Clare now.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”

― Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force

“But you, that are polluted with your lusts, stain'd with the guiltless blood of innocents, corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices, because you want the grace that others have, you judge it straight a thing impossible to compass wonders but by...”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”

― Carl Jung, Memories

“It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“The imagination must be given not wings but weights.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“There's no way to rule innocent men.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me?' the State may be given up for lost.”

― Charles Dickens,

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