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  • #1
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #2
    William Shakespeare
    “Cowards die many times before their deaths;
    The valiant never taste of death but once.
    Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
    It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
    Seeing that death, a necessary end,
    Will come when it will come.”
    William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Walter Lippmann
    “It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”
    Walter Lippmann

  • #5
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #6
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #7
    Walter Bagehot
    “The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
    Walter Bagehot

  • #8
    William Shakespeare
    “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
    William Shakespeare, The Tempest

  • #9
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #10
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.”
    Niccolò Machiavelli

  • #11
    Jean Rostand
    “Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.”
    Jean Rostand

  • #12
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
    Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

  • #13
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
    Machiavelli Niccolo

  • #14
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #15
    Sigmund Freud
    “Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.”
    Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

  • #16
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country



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