“The effort for self-preservation is the first and only foundation of virtue.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch...”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before . . . He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! Do not wish me such an evil.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we...”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

“It is worse than whipping to be laughed at.”

― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

“We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straitly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Words save our lives, sometimes.”

― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“it is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion

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