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“The things we teach our children are cheerful, pleasant lies: and it is high time that someone has the fortitude to admit it”
― Vina Delmar

“In troubled times the efforts of one extraordinary person can turn the tide”
― Sara Donovan

“What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason”
― Robert Harris, Pompeii

“The natural impulse of men is to follow, he thought, and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate the rest.”
― Robert Harris, Pompeii

“It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe

“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations-such is a pleasure beyond compare.”
― Lucia St Clair Robson

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind