...yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
Never place someone so high on a pedestal that if they should fall... you get crushed.
We live in a 'two-hundred-year present'.
She had married him in order to be safe from the chaos. He had married her, she now understood, for the same reason. They were the last two people on earth who could make anyone safe from anything.
You're not seeing what you're looking at.
Strange... The more I befriend my solitude, the more people desire my company.
We need a politician who hates politics.
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions, their reasons are always different.
Remember: In poetry, each word is like a loaded gun; very heavy, and full of intent
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Silence is a chameleon that is colored by its surrounding circumstances
Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people believe that you have done.
The heaviest thing is an empty heart.
Violence is the repartee of the illiterate
Greed, however it manifests itself, is always ugly.
Different denotes neither bad nor good, but it certainly means not the same.
...the more of a fool a man is, the less he cares to look like one
You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too. Crack once, crack all to pieces
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