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And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.
“There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.”
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“There are degrees of seriousness," replied Syme. "I have never doubted that you were perfectly sincere in this sense, that you thought what you said well worth saying, that you thought a paradox might wake men up to a neglected truth.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
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“I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than the extent of my power or possessions.”
― Plutarch's Lives
― Plutarch's Lives
“Seriousness is not a virtue. It would be a heresy, but a much more sensible heresy, to say that seriousness is a vice. It is really a natural trend or lapse into taking one's self gravely, because it is the easiest thing to do. It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch. For solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light. Satan fell by the force of gravity.”
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John’s 2025 Year in Books
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