“being . . . rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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“Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.”

― Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years

“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a...”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The Dutch fetiches, who have converted me, declare every Sunday that we are all of us children of Adam—blacks as well as whites. I am not a genealogist, but if these preachers tell truth, we are all second cousins.”

― Voltaire, Candide

“Happiness is the poetry of woman, as the toilette is her tinsel.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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