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“Presumption is our natural and original disease. The most wretched and frail of all creatures is man, and withal the proudest. [...] [He] equals himself to God, attributes to himself divine qualities, withdraws and separates himself from the crowd of other creatures, cuts out the shares of animals, his fellows and companions, and distributes them portions of faculties and force, as himself thinks fit. How does he know, by the strength of his understanding, the secret and internal motions of animals?”
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“Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win.”
― A Court of Mist and Fury
― A Court of Mist and Fury
“She had to choose what, of the things she inherited from the people who came before her, she wanted to bring forward. And what, of the past, she wanted to leave behind.”
― Malibu Rising
― Malibu Rising
“Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, 'Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.”
― Black Beauty
― Black Beauty
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