"Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it."

-- Dean Koontz

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“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.”
“Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.”
“Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.”
“I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.”
“What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest... What still pulls on your soul?”
“Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.”

Source : Tallulah ch. 4 (1952)
“I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.”

Source : Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.51, Hamilton Books
“I don't want to sound like 'chirpy Evan' who's just bouncing around with his unrealistic views and doesn't understand what's going on.”

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