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#1

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#2

“Never mistrust, unless given a reason.”
― Sonia Rumzi

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#3

“I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.”
― Woody Allen

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#4

“I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.”
― Rory Stewart, The Places in Between

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#5

“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: education, goodness, intelligence, kindness, scholarship

2068 likes

#6

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

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#7

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression

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#8

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

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#9

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#10

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

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#11

“William Morton is like a holly bush,” Evelyn said. “Admirable from a distance, but spiky and uncomfortable up close.”
― Sophie Austin, The Lamplighter’s Bookshop

tags: historical-fiction, historical-romance, love, rivals-to-lovers

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#12

“He glanced at her then, his dark eyes gold in the lamplight, and there was something in his gaze that made her heart skitter.”
― Sophie Austin, The Lamplighter’s Bookshop

tags: historical-fiction, historical-romance, period-fiction, romantic-quotes

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#13

“Evelyn watched Lady Violet glide towards them, clusters of people parting and then closing up behind her, like shoals of fish. If it wasn’t for her dress – as bright as blood – she might’ve lost her. Instead she watched her approach in glimmers of red...”
― Sophie Austin, The Lamplighter’s Bookshop

tags: antagonists, historical-fiction, historical-romance

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