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“nature does nothing uselessly.” Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island
“there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness.” Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
“All art is quite useless.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“laws are always of use to those who possess and harmful to those who have nothing” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
“Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“agriculture is the earliest, the most honest of trades, and more useful than all the rest, and therefore more honourable for those who practise it.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
“Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.” Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
“You can’t hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn’t mean tin is useless.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“one girl is more use than twenty boys.” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
“Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, displant a town, reverse a prince's doom, it helps not, it prevails not.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.” George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

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