

“Ever Melkor found some ears that would heed him, and some tongues that would enlarge what they had heard; and his lies passed from friend to friend, as secrets of which the knowledge proves the teller wise.”
― The Silmarillion
― The Silmarillion

“Of all bad deeds that, under cover of the darkness, had been committed within wide London’s bounds since night hung over it, that was the worst. Of all the horrors that rose with an ill scent upon the morning air, that was the foulest and most cruel.”
― Oliver Twist
― Oliver Twist

“During the daytime I glut myself with sorrow and lament, having my own duties to see to, and my house-maidens' work: but night falls and the world sleeps. Then I lie in my bed and the swarming cares so assail my inmost heart that I go distraught with misery.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey

“That which, at first sight, appears to be contrary to the known laws of nature, will always be found, on investigation, to be in perfect accordance with those laws. For instance, had a sailor of the last century been running before the wind, and met with a vessel running at a good rate of speed, directly in opposition to the wind and current, this sight would have presented, to his understanding, a miracle in the highest possible sense of the term, that is, an event entirely contrary to the laws of nature, as known to him.”
― Key to the Science of Theology
― Key to the Science of Theology

“And that one over there was Michael Scot,
That one whose hips are slim; he really, truly
Knew every magic trick and every sleight.”
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
That one whose hips are slim; he really, truly
Knew every magic trick and every sleight.”
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

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