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We do not see Nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. 💙 ~ William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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Us Human Beings
“I am so, so disappointed with all of us human beings, and I do not exclude myself from that disappointment. We are all so stupid.”
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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I only quote others the better to quote myself.
[Je ne dis les autres, sinon pour d’autant plus me dire.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 25 (1.25), “Of the Education of Children [De l’institution des enfans]” (1579) [tr. Screech (1987), 1.26]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
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“So you banned all those books, Sadie said, and the teacher had blinked twice at her over her glasses. Oh no, sweetie, she said. People think that sometimes, but no. No one bans anything. Haven’t you ever heard of the Bill of Rights? The class giggled, and Sadie flushed. Every school makes its own independent judgments, the teacher said.”
― Celeste Ng, "Our Missing Hearts"
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
-- Benjamin Disraeli