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“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
― Omar Khayyám

“Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.”
― George Gordon Byron

“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream : it may be so at the moment after death.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne