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Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.

— Lev Grossman The Magician King (2011)

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Has it crossed your mind that you don’t have to go off on a holy crusade every time things don’t go your way?

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Who would’ve thought doing nothing all the time would turn out to be so damn tiring?

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It wasn’t nothing, but it wasn’t everything either.

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