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Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.”

Book:War and Peace: Top 100 Classic Novels

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This book is a curated selection of the most influential and enduring novels in the English language, with War and Peace being a cornerstone of this collection. The novel is renowned for its intricate narrative, detailed character development, and its portrayal of the Russian society during the Napoleonic era. more

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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world. more

“Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.”

People Knows Men World Years Long Lasts Found Five Impossible Twenties Monsters Flying Five Years Ashamed Dragons Fossils Up And Down Twenty Five

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Kingsley (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Kingsley (Illustrated)

“Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.”

Doe Matter Travel Where You Are Where You Come

Author:Jodi Picoult

“We're always contradicting ourselves. We want people to tell us apart.... ...yet we don't want them to be able to. We want people to get to know us... ...but we also want them to keep their distance. We've always longed for someone to accept us... But we never believed there'd be anyone who would accept our twisted ways. That's why we'll stay locked up tight... ...in our own little private world... ...and throw away the key, so that no one can ever hurt us.”

People Knows World Way Want Littles Able Hurt Accepting Keys Distance Locked Twisted Locked Up Contradicting

Author:Bisco Hatori

“Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.”

Source: The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places

“Break a leg up there, and I'll be down here hopefully breaking someone elses.”

Break Legs Hopefully Break A Leg Breaking Someone

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.”

President Advice Conversation Bills Clinton Former President Bill Clinton

Author:Tony Campolo

“Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the first sentence: I want everything and nothing less, the full measure of a writer's heart. I want a novel so poetic that I do not have to turn to the standby anthologies of poetry to satisfy that itch for music, for perfection and economy of phrasing, for exactness of tone. Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next.”