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"Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge."
"You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high."
"Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere."
"The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid system. The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence."
"Every fiction has its base in fact."
"Only ignorance makes us put up with defeat, then instead of being exalted we are humiliated."
Explore more quotes by Sara Sheridan
"I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there."
"I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living."
"If there's one shade a woman of colour can't wear it's got to be the one everyone expects, hasn't it?"
"There was something about Maria Graham that you could believe in " a slice of home. If not unique in her travelling, she was at least extraordinary."
"The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum."
"Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe."
"The world is changing and you're only just becoming accustomed to it. You're changing, I suppose. You've changed since I've known you.''How?''You've come more alive."
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