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"Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny"
Charles Reade, Novelist
"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
"Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change"
Richard Bach, Novelist
"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice"
Richard Bach, Novelist
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness"
Richard Bach, Novelist
"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly"
Richard Bach, Novelist
"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit"
Richard Bach, Novelist
"In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"The shortest answer is doing the thing"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"Once we have a war, there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?"
Jack London, Novelist
"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy"
Franz Kafka, Novelist
"Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted"
Franz Kafka, Novelist
"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"
Franz Kafka, Novelist
"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
"The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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