“The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it and invent ridiculous embellishments.”

― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

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“in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“The true God has never yet smiled upon a person for his charity or virtues, but only for the sake of Christ's merits.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

“Do you know . . . why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.”

― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with the one than happiness with the other.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“To mimic virtue is of every age; but the hypocrisy of luxury belongs more particularly to the ages of democracy.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who,...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“It is merely because a stepping-stone, here and there, is heedlessly left unsupplied in our road to the Differential Calculus, that this latter is not altogether as simple a thing as a sonnet by Mr. Solomon Seesaw.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka

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