But looking back through history, there are a lot more men who thought they were Alexander the Great than men who actually were.”
“Stephen looked sharply round, saw the decanter, smelt to the sloth, and cried, ‘Jack, you have debauched my sloth.”
― HMS Surprise
― HMS Surprise
“that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.”
― Robinson Crusoe
― Robinson Crusoe
“Situations change and clinging too tightly to what came before kills you.”
― Babylon's Ashes
― Babylon's Ashes
“Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”
― Master & Commander
― Master & Commander
“Most of what we know isn’t why things are what they are. We just figure out enough about how they work that we can predict the next thing that’s going to happen.”
― Babylon’s Ashes
― Babylon’s Ashes
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