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“They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.”
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“Second, there is no truth, no real mercy and no authentic compassion in blessing a course of action that leads persons away from God.”
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“Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.”
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“That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.”
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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
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