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“A fool pulls the leaves. A brute chops the trunk. A sage digs the roots.”
He always thinks because I’m reading, I’m not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.
‘Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.’”
“Rise too high, in mud you lie.”
“Wise men read books about history, Pliny. Strong men write them.”
“You meet a man, you know him. You meet a woman, she knows you.” He laughs to himself about some memory. “Might be easier thinking her some terror in the night. But she’s flesh and blood. She has friends. She has family. And she thinks you a threat to them.”
I would not have raised you to be a great man. There is no peace for great men. I would have had you be a decent one.
Some men have threads of life so strong that they fray and snap those around them.
