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“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“I would rather be punished for making the right decision than live with the guilt of making the wrong one for the rest of my life.”
― Shannon Messenger (Keeper of the Lost Cities)

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Reading is a gift never make it a punishment.”
― Haley pham

“Even without turning to look, I knew he was right there. Seething, overprotective, and wanting desperately to pick me up and carry me outside over his shoulder to safety, but there.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Spicy Little Curses

“It figured I’d fall for a witch. My taste in women always ran toward the feral ones.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Spicy Little Curses

“I guess I can be a gentleman. For her, anyway. I will always be anything she wants me to be.”
― Sadie Kincaid, Promised in Blood

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Anyone can become angry —that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way —this is not easy. ARISTOTLE, The Nicomachean Ethics”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

“Why on earth people who have something to say which is worth hearing should not take the slight trouble to learn how to make it heard is one of the strange mysteries of modern life.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World

“Age cannot wither her or custom stale her infinite variety. [Anthony and Cleopatra
Act II Scene 2]”
― Shakespeare W.

“We are not defined by what we can do, but by what we actually do.”
― Evelyn Skye, The Crown's Fate

“Others were found with their heads buried in holes in the earth, and it was evident that they had made theses holes for themselves, had heaped up the soil on their faces, and so suffocated themselves. Of all sights, the most striking was a Numidian who lay with a dead Roman upon him; he was alive, but his ears and nose were mangled, for with hands that were powerless to grasp a weapon, the man’s rage had turned to madness, and he had breathed his last while he tore his enemy with his teeth.”
― Titus Livy, The History of Rome, Books 21-30: The War with Hannibal