"Everything is game except what makes the soul better or worse."

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“All these philosophers are no more than surgeons.”

“Fortunately, when he lacks reason he also lacks words.”

“In such times, if you want neither to lie nor to wound, you are reduced to being silent.”

“Stars more beautiful to the eyes than the telescope that robs them of their illusions.”

“The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever.”

“Of what must be said and what must not be said. The importance of knowing.”

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"There are certain great sentiments which simultaneously possess many minds and make what we call the spirit of the age. That spirit at the close of the last century was peculiarly humane. From the gre…"

— George William Curtis

Social Activism1824–1892

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"Confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence."

— Michel de Montaigne

Philosophy1533–1592

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"He'd never been all that good at math, but he was a goddamned world-famous expert in getting dumped."

— John Green

Literature1977

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"I'm Kan, the Louis Vouitton don / Bought my mom purse, now she Louis Vuitton mom / I didn't play the hand I was dealt I changed my cards / I prayed to the skies and I changed my stars / I went to the …"

— Kanye West

Music1977

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