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“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
― George Washington

“But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.”
― George Washington

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation. ”
― George Washington

“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.”
― George Washington

“Worry is the intrest paid by those who borrow trouble.”
― George Washington

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.”
― George Washington

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You're never alone when you're reading a book.”
― Susan Wiggs

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

“Who, being loved, is poor?”
― Oscar Wilde

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“No good deed goes unpunished.”
― Oscar Wilde

“My father’s rasping whistle caught my ears from down the line and I searched the dirt-smeared faces until I found a pair of bright blue eyes fixed on me. His gray-streaked beard hung braided down his chest behind the axe clutched in his huge fist. He tipped his chin up at me and I whistled back—our way of telling each other to be careful. To try not to die.”
― Adrienne Young, Sky in the Deep

“Vegr yfir fjor.” Honor above life.”
― Adrienne Young, Sky in the Deep

“Nothing but a symbol? People die for symbols. People have hope because of symbols. They're not just lines. They're histories, cultures, traditions, given shape.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“What would friendship entail?

Well, on Wednesdays, we sacrifice a cat to Satan”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“I don't want to be their equal. I don't want them to look us in the eye. I want them to look away, to blink harshly, as if they'd stared at the sun itself. I don't want them standing across from us. I want them kneeling.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“One house fell. And another house's line died without an heir. Now all that is left is a secret.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“Nothing was invincible but change.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“That boy looks like every dark corner of a fairy tale. The wolf in bed. The apple in a witch's palm.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves