“Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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“an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports.”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“size is no guarantee of power”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture

“People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“But this is only the sentimental side of the matter; for grow we must, if we outgrow all that we love.”

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

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