“We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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“It must be very peaceful, he thought, to lie and slumber and dream forever and ever, with the wind whispering through the trees and caressing the grass and the flowers over the grave, and nothing to bother and grieve about, ever any more.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“It would be impossible to find a deeper sense of the function of education in discovering and developing personal capacities, and training them so that they would connect with the activities of others.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something in order to do that.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

“At the present time, an oppressed member of the community has therefore only one method of self-defence—he may appeal to the whole nation; and if the whole nation is deaf to his complaint, he may appeal to mankind: the only means he has of...”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“A kind heart he hath; a woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.”

― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“I want leisure to read—an immense amount.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

― Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any...”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“There's something happening every day, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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