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Quotes by English Authors
"Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education."
"Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others."
"Body experience... is the centre of creation."
"I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author."
"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."
"Infernal world, and thou profoundest HellReceive thy new Possessor: One who bringsA mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.The mind is its own place, and in it selfCan make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n."
"All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions."
"I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off."
"To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead."
"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
"No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing."
"Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners."
"The cut worm forgives the plow."
"Vengeance is a way of clinging to what we have lost. A wedge in the Last Door, and through the crack we can still glimpse the faces of the dead. We strain towards it with all our being, break every rule to have it, but when we clutch it, there is nothing there. Only grief."
"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood."
"The time has come ' the Walrus said 'To talk of many things Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax - Of cabbages - and kings - And why the sea is boiling hot - And whether pigs have wings.'"
"My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed."
"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words."
"He that is thy friend indeed,He will help thee in thy need:If thou sorrow, he will weep;If thou wake, he cannot sleep:Thus of every grief in heartHe with thee doth bear a part.These are certain signs to knowFaithful friend from flattering foe."
"The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible."
"It isn't that they can't see the solution it's that they can't see the problem."
"Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat's last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2."
"He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet."
"If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful."
"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."
"Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world."
"Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is."
"I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it."
"Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long."
"A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom."
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