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“Homo is a common name to all men.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1

“Carpe Scrotum. Seize life by the testicles”
― Rowena Cherry, Knight's Fork

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“As we approach the crucial battleground, believe that our blades will not shatter.
Believe that our resolve will not weaken.
Though our paths may diverge, our iron hearts remain together.
Swear, that though the land itself may break asunder...We will come back alive! ~Renji Abarai”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Volume 28

“Don't use such strong words. It'll only make you look weak.”
― Sousuke Aizen, Bleach, Vol. 1

“I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1

“Wherein cunning, but in craft? Wherein crafty, but in villainy? Wherein villainous, but in all things? Wherein worthy, but in nothing?”
― William Shakespeare

“If you want pay, then just be gay.”
― Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories

“O time, thou must untangle this, not I.
It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth. And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it, save I alone. And so, adieu, good madam; never more Will I my master’s tears to you deplore.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“The best order of things, as I see it, is the one that includes me; to hell with the most perfect of worlds, if I'm not part of it.”
― Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew / D'Alembert's Dream

“O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady:
If only to go warm were gorgeous,
Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st
Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need-
You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.”
― William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

“As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.”
― Ken Kesey

“Teach him to call it 'real life' and don't let him ask what he means by 'real'.”
― C. S. Lewis

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening.”
― Mary Griffith

“What at night had been perfect and ideal was by day the more or less defective real.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike
Feeds beast as man.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Every desired renewal of an existence is debased by being half alloy.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Let the flesh instruct the mind.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“She was sick and when she was sick she was sick as Southern women are sick.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea