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It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
- Joseph Conrad

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.
- George Saunders

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
- Rex Stout

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
- L.M. Montgomery

The future has an ancient heart.
- Carlo Levi

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
- William Blake

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.
- Bill Nye

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.
- Marilynne Robinson

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
- Leonard Woolf

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.
- Laurence Sterne

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.
- Ishmael Beah

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
- C.S. Lewis