Susan

“Greased Lightning,”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“I feel like I constantly demonstrate poor judgment. I don’t feel qualified to choose between fried or scrambled eggs.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“The first major postrevolutionary liberal in France was Benjamin Constant (whose novel Adolphe is better remembered than his political writings), who celebrated what he called “the liberty of the moderns” (actual liberty in day-to-day private affairs) in contrast to the classical “liberty of the ancients” that the French revolutionaries relied on overmuch, which merely meant “equal powerlessness before the state and equal participation in public affairs.”38”
― Brian Doherty, Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement

“Like half the rest of the world, if more than half there be that are clever and good, Marianne, with excellent abilities and an excellent disposition, was neither reasonable nor candid. She expected from other people the same opinions and feelings as her own, and she judged of their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen: The Complete Collection