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“The oldest argument for doing something wrong is that everyone is doing it. To dismantle what they have built would have required the agreement of every man who had spent his life building it," agrees my father softly. "It would have required them to give up all they have striven their entire lives to gain. And they would have needed to do it, largely, for the benefit of those at whose expense it originally came.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

“The needs of the many will always be loud.” He leans forward. Hooked nose inches from mine. “But in the end, it is only the strength of the few that matters.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

“Bring me arrogance and folly, bring me fire and destruction, bring me doom and the collapse of entire civilizations—just don’t bring me household squabbles.”
― Yann Martel, Son of Nobody

“I cannot tolerate it when people dislike me. I never stop thinking about it, to the point where it is like I am wearing their dislike wherever I go, which chafes like wet shoes.”
― Heather Fawcett, Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter