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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.203

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.

"Billy Corgan Rants At SXSW: ‘I Was Part Of A Generation That Changed The World’". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2012.

Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.

May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.130, Univ. Press of Mississippi

After five months I swore I’d never get pregnant again. I got so huge and it felt like someone had taken over my body.

"Kim Kardashian Blames God For Pregnancy Weight Gain" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2014.