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    Gerald Morris
    “You can't all be the greatest knight in England."

    "Why not?" Gawain smiled suddenly. "It makes for better stories that way.”
    ― Gerald Morris, The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady
    tags: arthurian, arthurian-fantasy, arthurian-legend, gawain, lancelot, stories, storytelling, tor
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    Gerald Morris
    “It's the kind of story that people tell. There are monsters in this world, to be sure, but there are a sight more storytellers.”
    ― Gerald Morris, The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady
    tags: fantasy, monster, monsters, story, storytellers, storytelling
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    Gerald Morris
    “Modesty is not a bad habit, after all," the priest said. "Although humility would be better.”
    ― Gerald Morris, The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady
    tags: gawain, humility, modesty, modesty-and-humbleness, religion, religion-spirituality
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    Gerald Morris
    “Failure is easy. This is a badge of shame.”
    ― Gerald Morris, The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady
    tags: failure, gawain, humility, self-improvement, shame
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    Gerald Morris
    “Surely the greatest fool is the one who only seeks his own glory.”
    ― Gerald Morris, The Ballad of Sir Dinadan
    tags: bedivere, glory, glory-quotes
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    Gerald Morris
    “Adventure is something that happens to someone else. When it's happening to you, it's only trouble.”
    ― Gerald Morris, The Ballad of Sir Dinadan
    tags: adventure, fantasy, journey, life, life-lessons, trouble
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    Gerald Morris
    “The difference between a madman and a nincompoop is not all that great, except that madmen probably do less harm.”
    ― Gerald Morris, The Ballad of Sir Dinadan
    tags: insane, insanity, intelligence, intelligence-quote, madness, madness-quotes, nincompoop, sir-tristan, stupidity
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    Gerald Morris
    “But that was the confusing part: the very thing that made life worthwhile again—discovering that she cared about these other people—was what made her go to her death. [...] The thing that made life worth continuing was what made it worth ending. This, of course, was stupid, but she couldn't help that.”
    ― Gerald Morris, The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight
    tags: humor, life, sacrifice, sacrifice-for-others
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    William Shakespeare
    “When the mind's free,/The body's delicate.”
    ― William Shakespeare, King Lear
    tags: adversity, endurance, hardship, psychology
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    William Shakespeare
    “The best quarrels in the heat are cursed/By those that feel their sharpness.”
    ― William Shakespeare, King Lear
    tags: common-man, popular-opinion, war
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “He impaired his vision by holding the object too close. He might see, perhaps, one or two points with unusual clearness, but in so doing he, necessarily, lost sight of the matter as a whole. Thus there is such a thing as being too profound. Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
    tags: truth
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    J. Sheridan Le Fanu
    “When once we engage in secret and guilty practices we are nearer other and greater crimes than we at all suspect.”
    ― Sheridan Le Fanu, In a Glass Darkly
    tags: adultery, ethics, ethics-and-morality, morality, murder, religion, sin
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Indeed, there is always something very restful about a duck. Whatever earthquakes and upheavals may be afflicting the general public, it stands aloof from them and just goes on being a duck.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Full Moon
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
    tags: sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Sane libertines, he was thinking, are bad enough, but loony libertines are the limit.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Uncle Dynamite
    tags: libertine, sanity-and-madness, sanity-quotes
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf / denn zum wurdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff"
    (loose translation: nature, alas, made only one being out of you although there was material for a good man & a rogue)”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
    tags: human-nature
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles
    tags: classic, crime, detective, mystery, novel
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
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    William Shakespeare
    “Hell and night
    Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Othello
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    William Shakespeare
    “Knavery’s plain face is never seen till used.”
    ― Shakespeare
    tags: shakespeare
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    William Shakespeare
    “Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. You have lost no reputation at all unless you repute yourself such a loser.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Othello
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    William Shakespeare
    “When devils will the blackest sins put on
    They do suggest at first with heavenly shows”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: devil, iago, othello, shakespeare
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    William Shakespeare
    “The world's a huge thing; it is a great price for a small vice.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Othello
    tags: adultery, adultery-quotes, sin, sins, vice, vice-quotes, world-domination
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    Naomi Novik
    “They would have devoured my family and picked their teeth with the bones, and never been sorry at all. Better to be turned to ice by the Staryk, who didn't pretend to be a neighbor.”
    ― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
    tags: neighbor, neighborliness
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    Donald Bain
    “But alas! My father, 0 my father! My people, 0 my people! My God, 0 my God! Release me from this too great trial and tribulation,, for it is greater than I can bear.”
    ― Donald Bain, Queen Esther, a Purim play, by Donald Bain. 1917 [Leather Bound]
    tags: book-of-esther, god, god-quotes, jewish, judaism, lineage, queen-esther, religion, religion-quotes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
    tags: imagination
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