"It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than good. These overgrown mortals commonly use their will with their right hand; and their reason with their left."

-- Jeremy Collier

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“I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
“Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?”
“For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.”
“The content of your thoughts and personal beliefs can be proven by a single indicator - your current results.”
“Many people like to think that their moral or political enemies are not just wicked or wrong - as if that were not enough - but stupid or idiotic too. We tend to find this attitude too in the contemporary religion debate. It might console those on each side of the debate to think of their opponents in these terms, but if we want to make real progress in understanding what is going on here, this approach cannot help.”
“The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.”
“The country which is in advance of the rest of the world in chemistry will also be foremost in wealth and in general prosperity.”

Source : William Ramsay (1909). “Essays Biographical and Chemical”
“You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.”

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