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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“I'm too hot to handle; poor bitch needs to be treated for burns!”
― Natalya Vorobyova

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
― Virginia Woolf

“To me, impulsive means foolish. But if a person’s not a little impulsive, they don’t have a pulse.”
― Jarod Kintz, Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
― Graham Greene

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ”
― Jane Austen

“Just because I liked something at one point in time doesn’t mean I’ll always like it, or that I have to go on liking it at all points in time as an unthinking act of loyalty to who I am as a person, based solely on who I was as a person. To be loyal to myself is to allow myself to grow and change, and challenge who I am and what I think. The only thing I am for sure is unsure, and this means I’m growing, and not stagnant or shrinking.”
― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss

“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
― Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories

“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”
― Raymond Carver

“You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
― Paul McCartney

“To obtain victory by any means and with any weapon.”
― Chris Bradford, The Way of the Dragon

“And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.”
― Jane Austen

“Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to draw
so near to him?” I asked myself. “Surely she cannot truly like him, or not
like him with true affection! If she did, she need not coin her smiles so
lavishly, flash her glances so unremittingly, manufacture airs so elaborate,
graces so multitudinous.”
― Charlotte Bronte

“and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you”
― E.E. Cummings

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
― Lucille Clifton

“Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it's not practical. There are no stereotypes.”
― Ted Bundy

“I don't feel guilty for anything. I feel sorry for people who feel guilt.”
― Ted Bundy