“it is impossible for anyone to set out to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

― Epictetus, Discourses

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“You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.”

― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“How useful an office one's friends perform when they recall us.”

― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“I’ve lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck straight through the streets.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less travelled by,And that has made all the difference.”

― Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

“They give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking, or the intentional noting of connections; learning naturally results.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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