"When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us."
Margery Allingham
"As the twig is bent the tree inclines."
Virgil
"The dead think they can get away with anything because you'll feel sorry for them. If you play cards with the dead, make sure you deal and don't let them buy you drinks. They'll slip you a formaldehyde roofie and pry the gold fillings out of your teeth."
Richard Kadrey
"Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned."
Johnnie Dent Jr.
"Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all."
Arthur C. Clarke
"When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness."
Ausonius
"If Eve was inferior to Adam because she was created after him, then Adam was inferior to the fishes, because they preceded him."
Lillie Devereux Blake
"The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven."
Victor Hugo
"Sometimes, that’s the way it is with people. You think you can tell what they are based on the patterns that you see, but when you take a look inside, they’re nothing like you expect them to be."
Bella Forrest
"It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done."
Terry Pratchett
"No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us."
M.F. Moonzajer
"I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play."
Anna Sewell
"Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'."
Norman Lindsay
"People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of."
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