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“You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.”
―
Jane Austen
,
Pride and Prejudice
topic:
interest
“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.”
―
Adam Smith
,
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
topic:
happiness
interest
“where the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.”
―
Thomas Hobbes
,
Leviathan
topic:
interest
business
“No country sacrifices its men without reason, and certainly not in the interests of another”
―
Anne Frank
,
The Diary of a Young Girl
topic:
war
interest
“when you see the servant thinking more of his own interests than of yours, and seeking inwardly his own profit in everything, such a man will never make a good servant, nor will you ever be able to trust him”
―
Niccolò Machiavelli
,
The Prince
topic:
trust
interest
“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.”
―
Oscar Wilde
,
Lady Windermere's Fan
topic:
boredom
interest
“One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.”
―
John Stuart Mill
,
Considerations on Representative Government
topic:
power
belief
interest
“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while.”
―
Fernando Pessoa
,
The Book of Disquiet
topic:
interest
“The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not, then, new, but amongst the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance: it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say.”
―
Alexis de Tocqueville
,
Democracy in America
topic:
interest
“And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought.”
―
Charles Bukowski
,
Ham on Rye
topic:
interest
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