"The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late."

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"The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late."

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"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."

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"Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength."

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Victor Hugo, French Author

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Jane Austen, British Writer

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."

"Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with."

"The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late."

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"Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear."

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"Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."