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Yet the Duke of Wellington was surely right when he said that a man might as well tell the history of a ball, meaning a dance, as write the story of a battle.
“Yes, keep on degrading yourself, soul. But soon your chance at dignity will be gone. Everyone gets one life. Yours is almost used up, and instead of treating yourself with respect, you have entrusted your own happiness to the souls of others.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Are you very much attached to money?’ asked Stephen. ‘I love it passionately,’ said Jack, with truth ringing clear in his voice. ‘I have always been poor, and I long to be rich.”
― Master and Commander
― Master and Commander
“The faith that limitless technological progress will finally solve the problems of limitless contamination seems to depend upon some sort of neo-religion.”
― The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings
― The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings
“Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
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