“sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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“a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“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

“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”

― George Bernard Shaw, The Philanderer

“The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries in itself the causes of its destruction.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind, upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are all embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

“There’s something perverse about women... they’re all masochists at heart.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“The discovery that the universe is expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century.”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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