Cassandra

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“In a very real sense, people who have read good literature
have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
It is not true that we have only one life to lead; if we can read,
we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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― S. I. Hayakawa

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”
― Thomas A. Edison