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

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

“The fact that different nations and states define the age of consent differently (in Florida it’s eighteen; in New York it’s seventeen; in England it’s sixteen) only gave him ammunition. He [Epstein] said these inconsistencies proved these laws were arbitrary and meaningless; no one could convince him that sex with minors was wrong, because no one could agree on what a minor was!”
― Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

“It is challenging to obtain blue colorants from nature, but the fungi kingdom is unique in that it offers a rare blue-producing pigment found nowhere else in nature.”
― Julie Beeler, The Mushroom Color Atlas: A Guide to Dyes and Pigments Made from Fungi

“But garlic also served as food for gods, especially for Hecate.”
― Andrew Theitic, The Witches' Almanac: Spring 2010-Spring 2011

“Roman skepticism and piety were close bedfellows, so perhaps it was considered foolish to believe every in legend, even when tradition demanded an outward show of devotion.”
― Mab Borden, Ancient Roman Holidays

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx