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“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.”

James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) American author

“Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.”

Rex Stout book The Red Box

Source: The Red Box

“You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine”

Sharon Salzberg (1952) American writer

“Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“Girls scare me more than boys. Boys are cruel. Girls are mean.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”

Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)

Letter (6 September 1910) to his father, John Coolidge, who had been elected to the Vermont State Senate; in Your Son Calvin Coolidge, as cited in Silent Cal’s Almanack: The Homespun Wit and Wisdom of Vermont's Calvin Coolidge (2011), Ed. David Pietrusza, Bookbrewer, "Legislation".
1910s, Letter to John Coolidge (1910)

“For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand.
-Peeta”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.”

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet

“And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

"Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad Company." This was a French maxim, late 16th century, as quoted by George Washington in his "Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation," Rule # 56 (ca. 1744) http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/civility/transcript.html <br class="br">Misattributed