“Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.”

― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

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“You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.”

― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

“For how shall I be able, said he, to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.”

― Woodrow Wilson, We Must Accept War

“We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man; but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek. Where there is much bias there must be some narrowness, and love, though added emotion, is...”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“But beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty—it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life—froze it.”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“To a narrow-thinking person, it is hard to explain that to be 'educated' does not only mean being literate and having a B.A., and that an illiterate man can be a far more 'educated' voter than someone with an advanced degree.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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