Ignoring things didn’t make them go away. It only made it harder to face them when they finally came around.

—A. Meredith Walters in Light in the Shadows

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Love shouldn’t make you feel like that. It should be as natural as breathing. It should happen between two people because it grew there out of something beautiful.

—A. Meredith Walters in Cloud Walking

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In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

—Theodore Dreiser

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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

—Winston Churchill

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

—Samuel Johnson

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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

—Samuel Butler

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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

—Thomas Carlyle

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