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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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"[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."


"When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best."


"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."


"I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another."
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