“The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

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“He who believes that each being has been created as we now see it, must occasionally have felt surprise when he has met with an animal having habits and structure not in agreement.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Who controls the past . . . controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“He would have to learn the reality of a thing before he could put his faith into it.”

― Jack London, White Fang

“Pride, therefore, is pleasure springing from a man thinking too highly of himself.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“Do you think that to be an agriculturist it is necessary to have tilled the earth or fattened fowls oneself?”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“I am laying down good intentions, which I believe durable as flint.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, remembers me of all his gracious parts, stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; then have I reason to be...”

― William Shakespeare, King John

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