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Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.
G. K. Chesterton
Various attributed
hope
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. Chesterton
Various writings
Uniqueness
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G. K. Chesterton
Various attributed
Learning
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf
Three Guineas
Life
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out
Learning
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
Uniqueness
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
hope
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend
Learning
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend
Kindness
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Isaac Newton
Various attributed
Life
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newton
Various writings
Learning
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
Letter to Robert Hooke
Learning
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others.
Adam Smith
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Kindness
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations
Life
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations
Work
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world.
John Locke
Letter to Anthony Collins
Learning
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Learning
Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
John Locke
Second Treatise of Government
Life
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
Thoughts on Various Subjects
Uniqueness
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
Thoughts on Various Subjects
Life
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