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“It is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“I saw that a man of truth must also be a man of care.” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

“All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Beautiful and Damned” - 1922

“Better poverty without care, than riches with.” Aesop, “Aesop's Fables”

“Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” Mark Twain, “Following the Equator” - 1897

“Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.” William Shakespeare, “King Lear” - 1623

“You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care.” William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice” - 1600

“Celerity is never more admir'd than by the negligent.” William Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra” - 1623

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.” William Shakespeare, “Henry V” - 1600

“Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, for things that are not to be remedied.” William Shakespeare, “Henry VI, Part 1” - 1623

“Unfortunately, yes; the people we care for most are not good for us when we are ill.” Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway” - 1925

“Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality, to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence.” Jonathan Swift, “Gulliver's Travels” - 1726

“Thereafter he walked very carefully, with his eyes on the road, and when he saw a tiny ant toiling by he would step over it, so as not to harm it.” L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” - 1900

“The whole difference is that, in the family, the love of the father for his children repays him for the care he takes of them, while, in the State, the pleasure of commanding takes the place of the love which the chief cannot have for the peoples...” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” - 1762

“If gods care not for me and for my children, there is a reason for it.” Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations” - c. 170 - 180

“Even in those cities which seem to enjoy peace, and where the arts flourish, the inhabitants are devoured by more envy, care, and uneasiness than are experienced by a besieged town.” Voltaire, “Candide” - 1759

“When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?” Voltaire, “Candide” - 1759

“In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce and worldly pursuits.” Isaac Asimov, “Foundation” - 1951

“Thus from the four preceding articles, the definition of law may be gathered; and it is nothing else than an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community, and promulgated.” Thomas Aquinas, “Summa Theologica” - 1274

“It’s no tragedy, Freckles. Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.” Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” - 1944

“She wished him to owe his recovery to her alone—to her care, to her tireless devotion. That is the other side of selflessness: its tyranny.” Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin” - 2000

“But where is the last year's snow? This was the greatest care that Villon the Parisian poet took.” François Rabelais, “Gargantua and Pantagruel” - 1534

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” - 2000

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you” John Steinbeck, “Of Mice and Men” - 1937

“I couldn't forgive him or like him but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” - 1925

“He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize how much he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been called.” Neil Gaiman, “Stardust” - 1999

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” - 1925

“If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him” Neil Gaiman, “The Graveyard Book” - 2008

“Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Snuff” - 2008

“to care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “Notes from Underground” - 1864

“the cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.” Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities” - 1859

“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? —an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.” George Eliot, “Daniel Deronda” - 1876

“the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the success of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.” Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities” - 1859

“All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care.” Thomas Hardy, “Jude the Obscure” - 1895

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