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Unfairness quotes

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“Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?” William Shakespeare, “King Lear” - 1623

“I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

“Life, I’ve learned, is never fair. If people teach anything in school, that should be it.” Nicholas Sparks, “A Walk to Remember” - 1999

“You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.” Thomas Hardy, “Jude the Obscure” - 1895

“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.” David Foster Wallace, “Infinite Jest” - 1996

“nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.” Ken Kesey, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” - 1962

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