"Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness."

-- Francis Quarles

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“If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!”
“Tacos." "Tacos?" I echoed. This seemed to amuse him. "Tomatoes, lettuce, cheese." "I know what a taco is!”
“I lack confidence as an actor.”

Source : "Charles Durning, Prolific Character Actor, Dies at 89" by Robert Berkvist, www.nytimes.com. December 25, 2012.
“With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.”
“I've made so many mistakes and I always thought I'd have time to correct them!”
“I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.”

Source : "John Hodgman, part one: the global superpocalypse". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 8, 2011.
“I went out in my yard and saw a snake, so I got really scared, and I came back inside to get a shovel, and beat the hell out of that snake. Then I didn't have cable for a week.”
“Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.”

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