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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, feeds upon itself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.”
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Sudelbücher.

“Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself. To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.”
― Jim Beaver, Life's That Way

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain