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    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
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
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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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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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  • #6
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I cannot live without books.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: books
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends
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  • #8
    Helen Keller
    “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Jane Austen
    “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    Groucho Marx
    “When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: friends, humor, jail
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: hermione
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  • #13
    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
    13228 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: friends-betrayal
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  • #15
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “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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    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
    42408 likes

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  • #18
    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
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  • #19
    Mary Zimmerman
    “Let me die the moment my love dies.
    Let me not outlive my own capacity to love.
    Let me die still loving, and so, never die.”
    ― Mary Zimmerman, Metamorphoses
    tags: die, love
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  • #20
    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone
    25335 likes

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  • #22
    Sarah Dessen
    “You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon
    tags: inspirational
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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  • #24
    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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  • #25
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
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  • #26
    Leonard Bernstein
    “Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
    ― Leonard Bernstein
    tags: music
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  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: death, love
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  • #29
    Sarah Dessen
    “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: love
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  • #30
    H.L. Mencken
    “The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: age, humor, old, wisdom
    2177 likes



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