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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

“At their most primal, horror stories are about survival—whether it’s survival of identity, free will, or physical life—set against a backdrop of isolation and pursued by a relentless menace that won’t stop until the hero is dead.”
― Jamie Nash, Save the Cat!® Writes Horror: The Ultimate Guide to Creating Monster in the House Stories

“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
― Golda Meir, My Life

“Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other names and cry, and grown women who are sisters will say words so cruel that each syllable will take on the form of a snake, although such a snake often circles in on itself to eat its own tail once the words are said aloud.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“My priest friend Tom said you can safely assume you've created God in your own image
when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Tom Weston

“Your success cannot lie in something so tedious as whether you’re liked.”
― Alyssa Cole, How to Catch a Queen

“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot