“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

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“I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness, Ned. Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“when the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.”

― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“I comforted him as well as I could. In such cases men do not need much expression. A grip of the hand, the tightening of an arm over the shoulder, a sob in unison, are expressions of sympathy dear to a man's heart.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than...”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“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

“There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.”

― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine.”

― Jack London, White Fang

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“I had always felt that if there were a serious war I wished to be in a position to explain to my children why I did take part in it, and not why I did not take part in it.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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