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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.”
― Bertrand de Jouvenel

“There is a tyranny in the womb of every Utopia.”
― Bertrand De Jouvenel

“Power changes its appearance but not its reality.”
― Bertrand De Jouvenel, On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
― Frederic Bastiat

“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”
― Frederic Bastiat, The Law