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Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)

by Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)

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Book cover for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling

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Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”

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“For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.”
― Plato, Apology

tags: death, fear-of-death, plato

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“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.”
― Plato, Apology

tags: apology, knowledge, plato, socrates, wisdom

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“the wonderful thing about books was that they were films that played inside your head.”
― Ruth Hogan, The Keeper of Lost Things

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“Her grandmother had once told her that one could blame ugliness on one's genes and ignorance on one's education, but there was absolutely no excuse whatsoever for being dull.”
― Ruth Hogan, The Keeper of Lost Things

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