"Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with."

-- Joseph Addison

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“Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters - the saints and the sinners, real or imagined - reading shows you how to be a better human being.”

Source : Donalyn Miller (2010). “The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child”, p.18, John Wiley & Sons
“The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.”
“I'm worried about greenwashing. I think we should come down on it very, very hard, whether it's with criminal intent or actively deceptive.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”

Source : Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy: Paradise”, Xist Publishing
“I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground.”

Source : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.243, Macmillan
“Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I've always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I've always loved it and I like how those words sound together.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.”
“What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?”

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