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“It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.”
― Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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“To say the Truth, I have often concluded, that the honest Part of Mankind would be much too hard for the knavish, if they could bring themselves to incur the Guilt, or thought it worth their while to take the Trouble.”
― Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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“Marx is only half right when he calls religion the opium of the people. It may turn a lot of people into sheep, but it turns far too many of them into tigers.”
― Hugh MacLennan, Two Solitudes

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“In her eyes, the sadness sings—of one who was destined, for better things.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

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“Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching a cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts will not satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent? And isn't discontent the lever of change?”
― John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday

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