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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Ariel Bissett
    “I didn't care as much about reading the page as I did about flipping the page.”
    ― Ariel Bissett
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower
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    Robert Frost
    “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: education
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    Robert Frost
    “Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: new-england-wisdom
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    Joseph Murphy
    “Age is not the flight of years; it is the dawn of wisdom in the mind of man.”
    ― Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
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    Joseph Murphy
    “You are as young as you think you are. You are as strong as you think you are. You are as useful as you think you are. You are as young as your thoughts.”
    ― Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
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    Douglas Coupland
    “TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.”
    ― Douglas Coupland, JPod
    tags: humor
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  • #14
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Maya Angelou
    “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: books, inspirational, library
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  • #16
    Lemony Snicket
    “The world is quiet here.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
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    T.S. Eliot
    “The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: hope, humanity, library
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    Albert Einstein
    “The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: library
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    Joan Bauer
    “My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.”
    ― Joan Bauer, Rules of the Road
    tags: books, library
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft
    tags: books, library, literature, reading, words
    772 likes

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    Rainbow Rowell
    “Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
    tags: book-nerd, fangirl, library
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    Haruki Murakami
    “When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: books, emotions, library
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    Anatole France
    “Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”
    ― Anatole France
    tags: books, lending, library
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    John Lubbock
    “We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.”
    ― John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life
    tags: library, reading, travel
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  • #25
    “What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”
    ― Harold Howe
    tags: education, libraries, library, school
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
    tags: books, library, lies, people, reading, words
    358 likes

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    Rainbow Rowell
    “I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.”
    ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
    tags: discoveries, getting-lost, library, new-sides
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    Scott Douglas
    “When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, right?” or “They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?”
    ― Scott Douglas
    tags: librarians, library, library-books, quiet-please
    165 likes

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    L.R. Knost
    “Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of the soul, than a well-stocked library.”
    ― L.R.Knost
    tags: books, library, literacy, reading
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  • #30
    Maud Hart Lovelace
    “Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.”
    ― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
    tags: books, escape, imagination, libraries, library, reading
    108 likes



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