If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them. - George Orwell

I only realized during my last week that I was being cheated, and, as I could prove nothing, only twenty-five francs were refunded. The doorkeeper played similar tricks on any employee who was fool enough to be taken in. He called himself a Greek, but in reality he was an Armenian. After knowing him I saw the force of the proverb "Trust a snake before a Jew and a Jew before a Greek, but don't trust an Armenian."

In nearly seventy pages, it is astonishing how little he says, and how impressively he says it.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.