“knowledge should lead to wisdom, and . . . if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time!”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

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“Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man’s heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.”

― Jack London, The Star Rover

“What a weary time those years were—to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles

“But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”

― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

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