Intelligence Quote by Galen Beckett

““Beer might make a smart man dull, but coffee is worse because it can delude a dull man into thinking he's smart.””

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“Strange isn't it? How it's the direction we are viewed from that makes us attractive or abhorrent.”

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“Ivoleyn is the most beautiful and remarkable woman in all of Altania, he said, his throat so tight the words inflicted a pain upon him, but he forged on all the same. I admire and love her to the fullest extent I am capable. I have ever since meeting her, though I was too stupid to understand at first what…

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“Though I stand in darkness, I will fear no shadow. Though I am lost, I will know the way. Though I dwell in sorrow,…

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Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much

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“The man who does the greatest harm is the man who does nothing at all.”

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“It is an odd fact that certain words will leap at one out of a jumble of voices. Once such a thing is heard,…

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“It is often the case that matters less important but more pressing distracts us from the things that press less upon us but are…

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I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would never want another. However those…

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A word is all it takes to put a man in prison, or to seize his property, or to end his life. A saber might be stopped by a shield. A bullet might be dodged by a stroke of luck. But you can't dodge a word. If one is flung at you, it will hit its mark unerringly. No Garritt,…

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“An eye will tend to behold what its owner expects to see.”

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when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.

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