Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Samuel Johnson

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Sir Robert BadenPowell

Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests.

Cassandra Clare

What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.

Neil Gaiman

But more than any of that, I was thankful for the possibility he'd shown me: that a man really could love a woman enough that he'd do anything to protect her. That's how much Tod loved Addy.That's how much I wanted Nash to love me.

Rachel Vincent

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

P. J. O'Rourke

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Ayn Rand

Clever people study in order to know more. Undeserving people study in order to be more known.

Leo Tolstoy

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Mary Astell

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

Guy Lafleur

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

Alex Haley