“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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“One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“But the Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. Dragons may not have much real use for all their wealth, but they know it to an ounce as a rule, especially after long possession; and Smaug was no exception.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“I want you to live more vitally every day, as I am dead.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... or change.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

“a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.”

― William Faulkner, Light in August

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“he's a gentleman: look at his boots.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“All art is quite useless.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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