"I don't go to the movies because I don't like films."

-- Donna Leon

“People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life.”
“Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.”
“I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.”
“The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.”
“A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.”
“The learned man knows that he is ignorant.”
“Only when we try to love God will we see our utter inability to do so. And only when we understand that inability, will we begin to be in awe of His great love toward us.”
“Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.”

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