I’m not pretty, I’m not well dowered, I’m not clever, I’m not witty.…Why were one’s failings so often the sum of one’s self-awareness?
“Damn you, knowledge! Ruining everything good, once again. Learning things is most inconvenient.”
― Once Upon a Marquess
― Once Upon a Marquess
“Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.”
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.”
― Romancing Mister Bridgerton
― Romancing Mister Bridgerton
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
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“I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
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