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'Humph' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he. |
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- Robert Smith
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'I think therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. |
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- Miles Kindera
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.' |
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- J. R. R. Tolkien
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'It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners. |
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- Albert Camus
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'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. |
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- Abraham Lincoln
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'We were making the future,' he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is'. |
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- H. G. Wells
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'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations' |
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- Lewis Carroll
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...each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for him. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet. |
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- Hermann Hesse
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...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. |
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- Albert Einstein
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A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. |
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- Charles Langbridge Morgan
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