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Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our brothers are soft and humble. Your head is high, but our brothers cringe. You walk, but our brothers crawl. We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do as you please with us, but do not send us away from you.

Persuasion

[t]here ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do. It’s all part of the same thing.

The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known by all do not exist.

There are more things in heaven and earth…than are dreamt of by your philosophy.

Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know’st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear’st.

The great owners, striking at the immediate thing, the widening government, the growing labor unity; striking at new taxes, at plans; not knowing these things are results, not causes. Results, not causes; results, not causes.

You’re not buying only junk, you’re buying junked lives. And more – you’ll see – you’re buying bitterness.

How now?Even so quickly may one catch the plague?

Piggy took off his shoes and socks, ranged them carefully on the ledge and tested the water with one toe. ‘It’s hot!’ ‘What did you expect?’ ‘I didn’t expect nothing. My auntie-‘ ‘Sucks to your auntie!

I must have slept a long time, for when I was punched awake the room was dim with the light of the setting moon. “Move over, Scout.” “He thought he had to.” I mumbled. “Don’t stay mad with him.” Dill got in bed beside me. “I ain’t,” he said. “I just wanted to sleep with you.

All seemed weary of life even before entering upon it.

—Alone, quite alone. You have no fear of that. And you know what that word means? Not only to be separate from all others but to have not even one friend.—I will take the risk, said Stephen.—And not to have any one person, Cranly said, who would be more than a friend, more even than the noblest and truest friend a man ever had.

لا يمكنك أن تفهمي شخصا ما بالفعل حتى تنظري إلى الأمور بمنظاره هو! وحتى تلبسي جلده وتتجولي به!”/ أتيكوس

Sucks to your asma,’Lord of the flies

You aren’t thin-hided, it just makes you sick, doesn’t it?

I found myself wondering what life would be if Jem were different, even from what he was now; what I would do if Atticus did not feel the necessity of my presence, help and advice. Why, he couldn’t get along a day without me. Even Calpurnia couldn’t get along unless I was there. They needed me.

What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree, and to obey?

Όποτε σου έρχεται να κατακρίνεις κάποιον καλό είναι να θυμάσαι ότι δεν έχουν όλοι οι άνθρωποι σ’ αυτόν τον κόσμο τα πλεονεκτήματα που είχες εσύ.

We can’t always have our druthers.