At some point, there has to be a river, or what good can you really claim? If the man of good intentions never manifests a river, only calamity, should he not be damned to hell?” “It doesn’t seem fair.” “But it’s only fair to the world he
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“One fine day Truth met with Lies upon a mountainside with all of Hantalon spread beneath them: field, and town, and city stretching to the sparkle of the sea. With a disapproving frown, Truth asked of Lies how many she had slain. And true to her nature she answered with a lie. “More than you, brother.” The Basics of Deductive Logic, by I. P. Franchise”
― The Book That Broke the World
― The Book That Broke the World
“The truth, like oxygen, is necessary if we are to live. And, like oxygen, if it is all we get, it will kill us.”
― The Book That Broke the World
― The Book That Broke the World
“One of the worst things about humans is everything. But I’ll tell you what’s ten times worse than a human . . . two humans. And what’s ten times worse than two humans? You’ve guessed it: one child. A Complete History of Humanity, by Hubert Duck”
― The Book That Broke the World
― The Book That Broke the World
“Wisdom is difficult to write down, harder to find amid the ocean of the unwise, and, when found, next to impossible to learn from a page. The wisdom to use knowledge must be earned rather than given. That takes time.”
― The Book That Broke the World
― The Book That Broke the World
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