“I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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“I can never love a man who cannot protect me.”

― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Whether for this, or for some better reason, the founders of the schools of the Middle Ages included astronomy, along with geometry, arithmetic, and music, as one of the four branches of advanced education; and, in this respect, it is only just...”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

“It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us...”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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