--Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages, pg. 100
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
The Unreliability of Thoughts
"[Constance had] simply learned an important lesson: She needed to judge her friends and family by their actions, not by their thoughts, for thoughts are fleeting and temperamental, the reflection of a moment, and are very often confused and misleading. Thoughts formed into spoken words are a different matter, and actual deeds another matter still."
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