“I am afraid our eyes are bigger than our bellies, and that we have more curiosity than capacity; for we grasp at all, but catch nothing but wind.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”

― Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

“An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind, upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. Your mother brings you into the world, carries you first in her body. What do we know about what she feels? But whatever she feels, it, at least, must be real....”

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

“Books are like imprisoned souls until some one takes them down from a shelf and reads them.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“Therefore it has always been said that music is the language of feeling and of passion, as words are the language of reason.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

“It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Every friend in power is a friend lost.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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