Toppers Overall ~
1. The Female American; Or, the Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield
by ANONYMOUS - Unca Eliza Winkfield, Pseud. (1767)
(CHAP. III.) --> "...What credentials had I to support the novel doctrines that I was to introduce? How was I to combat old opinions, handed down from father to son, received with reverence, and, no doubt, maintained with obstinacy? What advantage would not all these difficulties give the priests over me, among an ignorant and deluded people? and what might not exasperated bigotry prompt them to? nah, I knew not, but they might even think it necessary and right to destroy one who should dare to deny the deity of the sun, and expose the absurdity of their religion..."
2. Being There
by Jerzy Kosiński. (1970)
(~) --> "He did not have to be afraid, for everything that happened had its sequel, and the best that he could do was to wait patiently for his own forthcoming appearance."
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/887780.Being_There
3. Anthem
by Ayn Rand. (1938)
(PART NINE) -->"There is some error, one frightful error, in the thinking of men. What is that error? We do not know, but the knowledge struggles within us, struggles to be born. Today, the Golden One stopped suddenly and said: ..."
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38935600-anthem
happy reading ~
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