“I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all”

― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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“The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain and not arbitrary.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“The things we love destroy us every time”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

“English is the largest human tongue; its variety, subtlety, and irrational idiomatic complexity make it possible to say things in English which cannot be said in any other language.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“The United States is not reliable, she would give you a little something, but not much. How could imperialism give you a full meal?”

― Henry Kissinger, On China

“It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.”

― George Bernard Shaw, The Philanderer

“if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

― Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

“It is an heretic that makes the fire, not she which burns in't.”

― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other...”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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