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Cruelty walked the Warrens holding hands with poverty and rage.

— Brent Weeks The Way of Shadows (2008)

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A solicitor is a man who does worse things within the law than most crooks do outside it.

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Kylar woke two hours before dawn and briefly wondered if death would be too high a price to pay for a full night’s sleep.

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It may be beyond your comprehension, but I can hold power without using it.

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It wouldn’t be the first time his sharp tongue had cut his own throat.

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Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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