“LEARNING, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“to control the child one must often control oneself.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“This patriotism is sometimes stimulated by religious enthusiasm, and then it is capable of making the most prodigious efforts. It is in itself a kind of religion; it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and of sentiment.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Respect is about how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.”

― Richard Branson, Screw It

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; besides, the extreme thing is generally the true thing.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this, that you call love, to be a sect or scion.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

“When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“It surprised him that life should be going on in the old way when his own reactions to it had so completely changed.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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