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“That realisation showed him the eternal error men make by imagining that happiness consists in the gratification of their wishes.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“A long time ago, man would listen in amazement to the sound of regular beats in his chest, never suspecting what they were.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The mayor was also the local policeman, which meant that only one man needed to be bribed rather than two... The community was proud that he was their mayor and their policeman even though he had sold his neice to Pedro the Grocer for one hundred and twenty-two words.”
― Louis de Bernières, The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts

“Our liberties are imperiled by overly competent beaurocrats.”
― Malcolm Gladwell