“But the British parliament fixes its own quorum: our former assemblies fixed their own quorum: and one precedent in favour of power is stronger than an hundred against it.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

“He felt himself, and did not want to be any one else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Don't you know . . . that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?”

― P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins

“The heart has its own order; the intellect has its own, which is by principle and demonstration. The heart has another. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by enumerating in order the causes of love; that would be ridiculous.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“In the practice of tolerance, your enemy is the best teacher.”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Kindness

“Don't build a castle of suspicions on one word.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“To prevent the perpetuation of poverty is necessary if the benefits of machine production are to accrue in any degree to those most in need of them; but what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“And this same knowledge extends likewise to all other things which I recollect having formerly demonstrated, such as the truths of geometry and the like; for what can be alleged against them to cause me to place them in doubt?”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“even the most timid women sometimes acquire a relish for the dreadful when that is amalgamated with a little triumph”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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