“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

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“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but...”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her?”

― George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind

“But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“This je ne sais quoi, so small an object that we cannot recognise it, agitates a whole country, princes, armies, the entire world. Cleopatra's nose: had it been shorter, the whole aspect of the world would have been altered.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Was there ever a war where only one side bled?”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books—of course!”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and...”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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