Alicia

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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

“Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.”
― P.D. James, The Children of Men