“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.”

― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

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“The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I am not proud, but I am happy, and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Man . . . how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

“I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Shut your eyes and see.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?”

― William Faulkner, Light in August

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