“Man surely has some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification; or he has some desire distinct from sense, which must be satisfied before he can be happy.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“Religions are often the state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“Things are never as bad as they seem.”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Darkness there, and nothing more.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

“In the meantime let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me.”

― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.”

― Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

“And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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