“The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“Go back? . . . No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”

― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“Few books are as fascinating as certain confessions: but they have to be sincere, and the author has to have something to confess.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“The fourth member of the party, however, was too excited to be genuinely happy.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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