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"We degrade God when we attribute our own ideas to Him, out of annoyance that we cannot fathom His ways." Dostoyevsky, The Idiot. 139 highlighters (as of 6/15/2014)

"Of all forms of insolence there is none more flagrant than that of the degraded poor receiving charity which they have come to regard as a right." George Gissing, The Nether World. 10 highlighters (as of 6/15/2014)

"The civilization of a country consists in the quality of life that is lived there, and this quality shows plainest in the things that people choose h talk about when they talk together, and in the way they choose to talk about them." Albert Jay Nock, On Doing the Right Thing. 8 highlighters (as of 6/15/2014)

"It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it." Seneca, On the Shortness of Life. 95 highlighers (as of 6/15/2014)

"The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men." Pascal, Pensees. 160 highlighters (as of 6/15/2014)

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