

“That was the trouble with humans—fear of the unknown could make them rash, taking action to destroy rather than to learn.”
― Finch Merlin and the Legend of the Luminary
― Finch Merlin and the Legend of the Luminary

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”
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“With all the playhouses closed on account of the plague, it would be a challenge to keep body and soul together.”
― The All Souls Trilogy
― The All Souls Trilogy

“Twas all nonsense, Verity thought. Men always did what they wanted and then cast about for the high-minded ideal that justified it.”
― A Lark's Conceit
― A Lark's Conceit

“Presumably, no, which was not shocking, for men were notoriously selfish, craving one thing only until it was in their grasp and then almost immediately desiring something else. They were supported in this endeavor by an ability to render their own needs noble—a sleight of hand summed up best by Richard Lovelace’s disingenuous feint in the poem “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars”: I could not love thee (Dear) so much, Lov’d I not Honour more.”
― A Lark's Conceit
― A Lark's Conceit

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