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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. ChestertonVarious attributed

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

G. K. ChestertonVarious writings

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. ChestertonVarious attributed

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

Virginia WoolfThree Guineas

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia WoolfThe Voyage Out

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Virginia WoolfA Room of One's Own

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Charles DickensA Tale of Two Cities

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles DickensOur Mutual Friend

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Charles DickensOur Mutual Friend

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Isaac NewtonVarious attributed

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Isaac NewtonVarious writings

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac NewtonLetter to Robert Hooke

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others.

Adam SmithThe Theory of Moral Sentiments

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam SmithThe Wealth of Nations

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 SmithThe Wealth of Nations

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world.

John LockeLetter to Anthony Collins

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

John LockeSecond Treatise of Government

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan SwiftThoughts on Various Subjects

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan SwiftThoughts on Various Subjects

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