Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
"People are liberated from suffering not when they experience this or that fleeting pleasure, but rather when they understand the impermanent nature of all their feelings, and stop craving them. " Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
"There was seldom any conversation, especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if only in secret." Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open? Northanger Abbey
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