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“And there, with an aching void in his young heart, and all outside so cold, and bare, and strange, Paul sat as if he had taken life unfurnished, and the upholsterer were never coming.”
― Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son

“If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A good pursued too inflexibly may turn into a granite evil.”
― Lewis Mumford, The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

“So many people make a name now-a-days, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.”
― Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes

“Anyone with an internet connection has access to more high-quality information sources than Harvard professors 50 years ago could have dreamed of. It turns out that there just aren’t many people who want to take advantage of that.”
― Kevin Munger

“For who owns that car, or that washing machine, or that apartment? Not the man himself. The banks own them, the insurance companies, ultimately the State. They are his only on credit, on sufferance. Every month he lops off a bit of his life and labor and mails it to the bank, or the credit card company, or the Government. He is in thrall; and there is no foreseeable end to it.”
― Jon Manchip White

“The spirit of faction outlived the cause of faction, and became itself the new and prolific source of a useless, endless strife.”
― James Bryce

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
― Anais Nin