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    “We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”
    ― Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace
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    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    ― Linda Grayson
    tags: chocolate, friendship
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  • #4
    Charles Dickens
    “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
    tags: closing-line, last-words, self-sacrifice
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    Charles Dickens
    “To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”
    ― charles dickens
    tags: honesty
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    Charles Dickens
    “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: giving, helping-others
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  • #7
    Charles Dickens
    “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: literature
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  • #8
    Charles Dickens
    “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: crying, heartfelt, shame, sorrow, tears
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    Charles Dickens
    “No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
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  • #10
    Charles Dickens
    “I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: good-and-evil
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  • #11
    Charles Dickens
    “Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: homecoming
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  • #12
    Charles Dickens
    “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
    tags: first-sentence, opening-lines
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  • #13
    Charles Dickens
    “Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
    ― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
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  • #14
    Charles Dickens
    “Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
    tags: blessings, gratefulness, misfortunes, reflection
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  • #15
    Charles Dickens
    “In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: cowardice, morality, pip
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  • #16
    Charles Dickens
    “My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.”
    ― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
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  • #17
    Charles Dickens
    “There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Hard Times
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  • #18
    Charles Dickens
    “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
    tags: humor, laughter
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    Charles Dickens
    “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: growth, heart, life, suffering
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    Charles Dickens
    “You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
    "I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
    tags: chains, choices
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    Charles Dickens
    “You have been the last dream of my soul.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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  • #22
    “some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.”
    ― Louise Erdrich, Tales of Burning Love
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  • #23
    “When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
    ― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves
    tags: athe-plague-of-dives
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  • #24
    “Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?”
    ― Louise Erdrich
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  • #25
    “When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.”
    ― Louise Erdrich, The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year
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  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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  • #31
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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