“The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.”
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#14550, Part 15
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)

But these are the qualities of women! And we know that a Circle is a higher Being than a Straight Line, in so far as knowledge and wisdom are more to be esteemed than mere affection.</p><p>SPHERE. It is not for me to classify human faculties according to merit. Yet many of the best and wisest in Spaceland think more of the affections than of the understanding, more of your despised Straight Lines than of your belauded Circles. But enough of this. Look yonder...</p>
Source: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), PART II: OTHER WORLDS, Chapter 18. How I came to Spaceland, and What I Saw There

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“You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.”

“Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.”
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. I : Apprentice, The Twelve-Inch Rule and Common Gavel, p. 1
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth