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    Emmuska Orczy
    “Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,"...”
    Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #3
    Emmuska Orczy
    “Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine”
    Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.”
    Elizabeth Gaskell

  • #6
    Emmuska Orczy
    “Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.”
    Baroness Emmuska Orczy

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #9
    Elbert Hubbard
    “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
    Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen

  • #10
    Elbert Hubbard
    “Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #11
    Elbert Hubbard
    “If you can not answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”
    Elbert Hubbard
    tags: humor

  • #12
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #13
    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

  • #14
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

  • #15
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #16
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

  • #17
    Sinclair Lewis
    “We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
    Sinclair Lewis

  • #18
    Irwin Shaw
    “There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
    Irwin Shaw

  • #19
    Sarah M. Eden
    “Time had come to formulate a reason to abandon the gardens and leave Miss Bower to leech onto some other gentleman, preferably one who had a certain fondness for parasites.”
    Sarah M. Eden, The Kiss of a Stranger

  • #20
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

  • #21
    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    Daniel Pennac

  • #22
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it was not me.”
    Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

  • #23
    Epicurus
    “He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.”
    Epicurus

  • #24
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    Mark Twain

  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    Mark Twain

  • #26
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #27
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #28
    Edna Ferber
    “I'm not much to look at", replied Elizabeth, "but I'm beautiful inside.”
    Edna Ferber, Half Portions

  • #29
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #30
    Rudyard Kipling
    “Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.”
    Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills



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