“But I can't help remembering that the world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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“What can we see or acquire, but what we are? You have observed a skilful man reading Virgil. Well, that author is a thousand books to a thousand persons. Take the book into your two hands, and read your eyes out; you will never find what I find.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Spiritual Laws

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent...”

― George Eliot, Adam Bede

“Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.”

― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“On this account, nothing is more dangerous than solitude: there our imagination, always disposed to rise, taking a new flight on the wings of fancy, pictures to us a chain of beings of whom we seem the most inferior. All things appear greater...”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“At such moments I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

“It was one of those rare and beautiful days in winter when England remembers that there is a sun.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“I must say I think patriotism is like charity—it begins at home.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

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