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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

"Margaret Atwood: 'I have a big following among the biogeeks. 'Finally! Someone understands us!'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2013.

For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.

Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.171, Anchor

Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

"In Catilinam", I, 4, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 321-25,

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (1887). “Ethical Writings of Cicero: Cicero De Officiis, Cicero De Senectute, Cicero De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream”

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

"Tusculan Disputations". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 30, c. 45 BC.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.50