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Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "I cannot betray you, but I might betray myself. Come, come!..."
I cannot betray you, but I might betray myself. Come, come! wait and see me betray myself. I shall do it so nicely. Gilbert K. Chesterton
If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal. Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
I would not wish Any companion in the world but you, Nor can imagination form a shape, Besides yourself, to like of.-The Tempest William Shakespeare
It's like dinosaurs. We can put them back together perfectly, bone for bone, but we don't know what they smelled like, what kind of sounds they made, or how big they really looked standing in the grass under all those fossil fern trees. Even the sunlight must have been different, and the wind. What can bones tell you about a kind of wind that doesn't blow anymore? Peter S. Beagle
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. W. Somerset Maugham
I didn’t want to invade his privacy; I didn’t want to fight with him; I didn’t want anyone else to ever hurt him. I just wanted him to be a child forever.” She glanced up, crying harder now. “But you can’t do that, if you’re a parent. Because part of your job is letting them grow up. Jodi Picoult
You’re lying,” he said-not angry, not accusing. Just as if he was stating the facts, in a way that she wasn’t. “I am not-” “You can say it a million times, but that doesn’t make it any more true.” Peter smiled then, so guileless that Lacy felt it smart like a stripe from a whip. “You might be able to fool Dad, and the cops, and anyone else who’ll listen,” he said. “You just can’t fool another liar. Jodi Picoult
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "You can resign from the Woman's Club, but the world is all,..."
You can resign from the Woman's Club, but the world is all, you can't just stop attending. Barbara Kingsolver
He had never dreamed that the country of which she would make him king (king in name but really a slave) was his own country. C. S. Lewis
You may of course ask whether we really need to refer to "saints". Wouldn't it suffice just to refer to decent people? It is true that they form a minority. More than that, they always will remain a minority. And yet I see therein the very challenge to join the minority. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. Viktor E. Frankl
I don't have to wear a three-piece suit to be a good person, but I would like everything about me-even my clothes-to reflect a certain uncompromising integrity. Glenn Beck
John Quincy Adams quote: "Try and fail, but don't fail to try."
Try and fail, but don't fail to try. John Quincy Adams
Isaac Asimov quote: "There is no Master but the Master,” he said, “and QT-1 is his..."
There is no Master but the Master,” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet. Isaac Asimov
When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head. Ayn Rand
She rolled the mysterious plunkin across in front of the hearth and stared at it. It still looked disconcertingly like a severed head. "What do we do with this?"Dag sat cross-legged and smiled--not much of a smile, but a start. "Lots of choices. They all come down to plunkin. You can eat it raw in slices, peel it and cut it up and cook it alone or in a stew, boil it whole, wrap it in leaves and cook it in campfire coals, stick a sword through it and turn it on a spit, or, very popular, feed... Lois McMaster Bujold

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