“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”

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

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“They do not love that do not show their love.”

― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!”

― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it—which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don't know.”

― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“the cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“'It's a small world,' . . . 'When you put it in a cemetery, it is.'”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much as possible. The Virgin Group has survived only because we have always kept tight control of our cash. But, likewise, I also know that...”

― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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