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“[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.”
― Thomas More, Selected Writings

“Love, that moves the sun and the other stars”
― Dante Alighieri, Paradise

“Darcy: 'I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.'

Elizabeth:'My fingers do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault -- because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Words, words, words.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting
That would not let me sleep.”
― Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“A little more than kin, a little less than kind.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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