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Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.

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Francis Quarles

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

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I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

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Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.

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Heav'n is not always got by running.

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Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

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Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

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Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're Making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, "This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives," the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, "Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life," that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

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When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more.

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C. S. Lewis

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Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.

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Abdu'l-Bahá

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Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

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