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The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself? ↗

— Milan Kundera

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What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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I want my name to mean me. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together." Brene Brown ↗

— Brené Brown

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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. ↗

— Alan Moore

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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

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People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. ↗

— Martha Beck

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