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“Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.”
― Leonardo DaVinci

“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Beauty you're born with, but brains you earn.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“Sometimes I wonder if he were raised a Red and I a Gold if he wouldn't have ended up a better man than I am now, and I a worse man than he ever could be.

For some reason I think I could have been capable of great evil.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son