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“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

“For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a creator toward his creature were, and that i ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness.”
― Mary Shelley