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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There are four things that lead to wisdom. You ready for them?'
She nodded, wondering when the police work would begin.
"They are four sentences we learn to say, and mean." Gamache held up his hand as a fist and raised a finger with each point. "I don't know. I need help. I'm sorry. I was wrong'.”
― Louise Penny, Still Life

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow