“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“But courtiers don’t take wagers against the king’s skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“If people only realized what a war goes on in a child’s mind and heart in a situation of this kind, I think they would try to explain more than they do, but nobody told me anything.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Longbottom, if brains were gold you’d be poorer than Weasley, and that’s saying something.”

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

“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect the most efficient service.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain and not arbitrary.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.”

― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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