“where a faith has been trodden out, we may look for a mean and narrow population.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

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“But this is only the sentimental side of the matter; for grow we must, if we outgrow all that we love.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

“if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

“We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

“But with the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“What I'd really like is to be a plowshare. I don't know what that is, but it sounds like an existence with some point to it.”

― Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic

“Alas, how easily things go wrong!A sigh too much, or a kiss too long,And there follows a mist and a weeping rain,And life is never the same again.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song. To me at least, who gave it to you.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Besides this, one cannot by fair dealing, and without injury to others, satisfy the nobles, but you can satisfy the people, for their object is more righteous than that of the nobles, the latter wishing to oppress, while the former only desire...”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Nothing is more usual than to feel that others have shared in our failures, just as it is an ordinary reaction to forget those who have shared in our achievements.”

― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

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