“Corruption wins not more than honesty.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

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“I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and...”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it—and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.”

― Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

“Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but...”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Stupidity has a knack of getting its way”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Life is never fair, Robert. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”

― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

“He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“To attain the highth and depth of thy eternal ways all human thoughts come short, Supreme of things!”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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