"Everything that's worth having is some trouble."
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Anne Of Avonlea
by
Lucy Maud Montgomery
"People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking."
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Atlas Shrugged
by
Ayn Rand
"Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think," said Anne.
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Anne of the Island
by
Lucy Maud Montgomery
"Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor."
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by
Anne Bronte
"Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble."
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Pygmalion
by
George Bernard Shaw
"It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble."
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The Time Machine
by
H. G. Wells
"Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink."
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The Importance of Being Earnest
by
Oscar Wilde
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.
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The Time Machine
by
H. G. Wells
The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble.
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Christie Johnstone
by
Charles Reade
"It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things."
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Old Rose and Silver
by
Myrtle Reed