“How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.” – Jane Austen
“Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.” – Charles Dickens
“The ability to think for one’s self depends upon one’s mastery of the language.” – Joan Didion
“…for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” – George Eliot
“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.” – Benjamin Franklin
“My grandfather used to say, ‘Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things are bad.'” – Paul Johnson
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” – C. S. Lewis
“You can’t learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can’t learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can’t learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.” – David McCullough
“There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“A Gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel — or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good — and as bad — as the man who carries it. Remember that.” – Jack Schaefer
“A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.” – Roger Scruton
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” – Upton Sinclair
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy
If a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who’s been arrested. -Tom Wolfe
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