“Be check'd for silence, but never tax'd for speech.”

― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

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“If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I’ll be all right as long as there’s a lending library”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The property of power is to protect.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past—they never do; they're too busy.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“Thou shalt not stand idly by to the hurl of thy fellowman.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“However, some desire is necessary to keep life in motion; and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“To see a world in a grain of sandAnd a heaven in a wild flower,Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,And eternity in an hour.”

― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“There lives a great man named Joe who was belittled by a loudmouth foe. While his rival would taunt and tease, Joe silently bore the stings. And then fought like a gladiator in the ring.”

― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

“Desire is appetite with consciousness thereof.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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