It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little.

—Sydney Smith

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Sydney Smith (3 June 1771 – 22 February 1845) was an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric.

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Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

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Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.

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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

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You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

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Really, when I look back on it, I did exactly what I had set out to do. I changed my life. I woke myself up. I rediscovered passions of every variety. I forced myself to take a little time. I found a way to bring some of who I used to be into who I was.

—Katherine Center in Everyone is Beautiful

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It's not enough to find someone you love. You have to be ready for that love, and ready to make changes to welcome it into your life.

—Uzma Jalaluddin in Ayesha at Last

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I guess I just realized how everything we do affects not only our lives, but people around us, too. It sucks that one weak moment could change the entire course of someone's life.

—Cindi Madsen in All the Broken Pieces

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One mistake can change the course of your life. You can never return to your original path or go back to the person you were.

—Lisa See in The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

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Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.

—Carol Rifka Brunt in Tell the Wolves I'm Home

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