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"Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible."
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"I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery."
"Women never stalk men, they just research them intensely."
"The world is endlessly fascinating to those who take the time to look."
"You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information."
"Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table looked at him.'What the hell, Ronan?' said Adam.'It's hard to imagine," Gansey mused, 'how this evidently successful classical education never seems to make it into your school papers.''They never ask the right questions,' Ronan replied."
"So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?"
"Cats like keyboards, people like to explore and to discover new mysteries."
"We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land."
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"He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader."
"You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing."
"She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception."
"Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."
"A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought."
"In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little."
"If we had lost our own chief good, other people's good would remain, and that is worth trying for."
"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."
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