“And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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“Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music.”

― George Carlin, Napalm & Silly Putty

“you're over-civilized. You should look on death as the Oriental does. It's a mere incident—hardly noticeable.”

― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

“Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it'll begin to give you an idea what size mind you have.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“They did not know that the quicker a fresh-water fish is on the fire after he is caught the better he is; and they reflected little upon what a sauce open-air sleeping, open-air exercise, bathing, and a large ingredient of hunger make, too.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“I will hurt you for this. I don’t know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you’ll know the debt is paid.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain—why he did not instantly...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“There are some dangers which when they are braved, disappear, and which yet, when there is an obvious and apparent dread of them displayed, become certain and inevitable.”

― Walter Scott, Quentin Durward

“A feeble body makes a feeble mind.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder aloud how the snowplow driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the...”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

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