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“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
― Groucho Marx

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

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government. There are only two main theories of government in our world. One rests on righteousness and the other on force. One appeals to reason, and the other appeals to the sword. One is exemplified in the republic, the other is represented by despotism.

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of man. Of course we endeavor to restrain the vicious, and furnish a fair degree of security and protection by legislation and police control, but the real reform which society in these days is seeking will come as a result of our religious convictions, or they will not come at all. Peace, justice, humanity, charity—these cannot be legislated into being. They are the result of divine grace.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
― Ernest Benn

“While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”
― Groucho Marx

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
― Neil Gaiman

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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

“In the end, we’re all just victims of our perceptions.”
― Charlie Human, Apocalypse Now Now

“I have seen things. I saw the great Mantis God of Africa fighting a creature from the primordial depths, a billion-year war until finally the Mantis threw the writhing creature from the heavenly sky into the deepest pit. I’ve seen the past through the lens of the Eye and it wasn’t in tasteful sepia. It was etched in blood and death and filtered through a veil of tears.”
― Charlie Human, Apocalypse Now Now

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“I would think wolves would prefer spicy things. It’s bears that crave sweets.” “We don’t like spicy food. Once we found red fang-shaped fruit among the cargo of a shipwreck. We ate it and regretted it loud and long!” “Ah, hot peppers. Expensive, those.” “We dunked our heads in the river and decided humans were terrifying indeed,” said Holo with a chuckle, enjoying the memory for a moment as she gazed at the stalls.”
― Isuna Hasekura, Spice and Wolf, Vol. 1

“Lawrence could proceed no further with his jape. Holo looked at him as if stricken. “…That’s not fair,” he grumbled. “Mm-hm. Female privilege.”
― Isuna Hasekura, Spice and Wolf, Vol. 1

“Now I see why Durandal’s such a bully sometimes. Bullying people soothes my heart. …I’m a good person, okay?”
― Virlyce, The Godking's Legacy

“I squeezed the skull with my left hand, and it disintegrated. Work! Lots of stuff to do, Lucia! Carve more runes! Strength! Speed! Focus, focus, focus! Lots of focus runes! Use all the bones in the bag! String them up around your body like some macabre decorations for easy use! What are you waiting for, start now! You’ll only be focused for another 59 minutes and 32 seconds! 31 seconds now! 30! …Yup. It worked. Busy, busy.”
― Virlyce, The Godking's Legacy

“You can barely see the dress that I took from Snow underneath all my consumable bones. Not like anyone would want to. It used to be white—it’s dark red now.”
― Virlyce, The Godking's Legacy

“H-hey. Are you a mercenary or a new breed of monster?” The two people at the gate didn’t seem very comfortable with my appearance. How rude. “Do I look like a monster?” “Yes…” Oh. Right, I probably do. No one else wears skulls and bones around their body all the time like this. And every inch of me is caked with dried blood except for my eyes. My hair feels all gross too, and my tail can’t even be seen underneath all these rib bones. “I’m a mercenary….”
― Virlyce, The Godking's Legacy

“Innkeeper! I need a bath.” “Yes, you do.” Don’t agree with me! “How much?”
― Virlyce, The Godking's Legacy

“You look like you have the face of someone who’s easily tricked.” …She just called me stupid, didn’t she? She’s lucky she’s right.”
― Virlyce, The Godking's Legacy

“…Your servant has an awfully loose mouth.” Your face is loose, you grumpy old man! Look at all those wrinkles and sagging skin.”
― Virlyce, The Godking's Legacy

“Is something burning?” Does molten metal count as burning?”
― Virlyce, The Godking's Legacy

“Everyone begs everyone’s pardon, but I’ve never seen a pardon. Is it near the spleen?” Bridget blinked, then gave her head a little shake to keep the odd thought from crawling into her ear.”
― Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass

“I’m no cactus expert, but I know a prick when I see one.”
― Mark A. Cooper, Royal Decree

“Nope. Not going.” “Are you sure? You’ll be stuck in the legendary realm forever if you stay here,” the man in the sky said with a smile. “If I leave, the next time I see you again, I’ll be stronger than you.” He’s telling me to beat him up now before problems arise in the future, right? Right? That was clearly a threat.”
― Virlyce, The Immortal Continent

“Too bad Lucia only had eyes for Durandal. And Durandal was an even greedier monster than Lucia.”
― Virlyce, The Immortal Continent

“For a while, I wanted to train him like I trained Puppers, but I don’t want to break Durandal’s soul. …I broke Puppers’ soul? Who said that? I treat Puppers very nicely! I feed him a meal every other month!”
― Virlyce, The Immortal Continent