Susan

“Congratulations! A desire not to butt into other people’s business is eighty percent of all human wisdom.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“She had been feeling that things were pretty desperate if one found oneself talking about and almost quoting Matthew Arnold to comparative strangers, though anything was better than having to pretend you had winter and summer curtains when you had just curtains.”
― Barbara Pym, Jane and Prudence

“The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.”
― L. Frank Baum, Oz: The Complete Collection

“The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and dissipation of unpleasant ideas which only reading could produce made her thankfully turn to a book.”
― Jane Austen