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“Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.”
― Miguel de Cervantes

“For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“A real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things that can be named.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room