“They also serve who only stand and wait.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Over the Teacups

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“Corruption wins not more than honesty.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

“As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naïve and simple-hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now that I had it, I couldn’t find a place for myself within it.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Love is fragile . . . but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love words, the tendernesses learned, are treasured up for the next lover.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tales of the Jazz Age

“For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want . . . I want everything.”

― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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