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“These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.”
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“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.”
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
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“It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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