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“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”— Herman Melville《Moby-Dick》
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》
“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.”— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》
“Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.”— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》
“The answer is, that we must do good to our seeming and real good friends, and evil to our seeming and real evil enemies--good to the good, evil to the evil.”— Plato《The Republic of Plato》
“The position, as it would appear to a plain person of ordinary common sense, is that a woman who is legally married to one man and is living as the wife of another, is a married woman who is living with a man who is not her husband.”— R. Austin Freeman《Helen Vardon's confession》
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald《The Great Gatsby》
“The man with the book was not reading aloud, and no one spoke; all seemed to be waiting for something to occur; the dead man only was without expectation.”— Ambrose Bierce《The Damned Thing》
