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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

“Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Time and time again one has seen how stories get exaggerated in the telling.”
― José Saramago, The Stone Raft

“The way of fortune, is like the Milken Way in the sky; which is a meeting or knot of a number of small stars; not seen asunder, but giving light together.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays