“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Any battle-seasoned general will tell you that, even in a small-scale engagement (as this one was), there always comes a point where coherence breaks down, and the narrative flow, and any real sense of how things are going. These matters are re-created by historians later on. The need to re-create the myth of coherence may be one of the reasons why history exists in the first place.”
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“...it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.”
― The Last of the Mohicans
― The Last of the Mohicans
“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― A Journey to the Center of the Earth
― A Journey to the Center of the Earth
“This man has conquered the world! What have you done?"
The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.”
― The Virtues of War
The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.”
― The Virtues of War
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