Novia

“He stared at the cheap linoleum between his shoes and admitted to himself that once again he had fallen into the trap that often snared so many of the educated and upper-class locals when they convinced themselves that the rest of the population was stupid and ignorant. Cranwell was smarter than most lawyers in town, and infinitely more prepared.”
― John Grisham

“We were invincible because we were eighteen and stupid.”
― John Grisham, Bleachers

“I would rather do nothing than do a rough sketch without having looked at anything. My memories will do better.”
― Edgar Degas

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains