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...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

Jon Krakauer (2012). “Eiger Dreams: Ventures among men and mountains”, p.48, Pan Macmillan

So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.

John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill (2015). “Essays on Sex Equality”, p.126, University of Chicago Press

"I would like to apologize" may sound like an apology, but it is no more an actual apology than saying "I would like to lose weight" makes you suddenly slimmer.

John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.200, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.

John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.82, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.