“For, what other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, House of the Seven Gables

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“The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.”

― E. M. Forster, A Room with a View

“Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

“I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.”

― Confucius, Analects

“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“If we shadows have offended, think but this,—and all is mended,— that you have but slumber'd here while these visions did appear.”

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

“size is no guarantee of power”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Book! you lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

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