“The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.”
― Gulliver’s Travels
― Gulliver’s Travels
“Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine.”
― Gulliver’s Travels
― Gulliver’s Travels
“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism
“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
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