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    Joseph Joubert
    “The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
    ― Joseph Joubert
    tags: books, reading
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    Jane Austen
    “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
    ― Jane Austen
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    Groucho Marx
    “One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: humor
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    Alan Alda
    “Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.”
    ― Alan Alda
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    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    ― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters
    tags: friends, humor, people
    8991 likes

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    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
    ― Ernest Benn
    tags: misattributed-groucho-marx, politics, problems
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: dorothy-parker, heterosexuality, homosexuality, humor, wit
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    Groucho Marx
    “Whatever it is, I'm against it.”
    ― Groucho Marx
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded
    wheelchair.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: health, money
    259 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “And if my heart be scarred and burned,
    The safer, I, for all I learned.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems
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    Groucho Marx
    “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: attributed-no-source
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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
    51601 likes

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    George Carlin
    “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: funny, humanity, humor
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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
    148378 likes

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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
    130131 likes

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    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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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92175 likes

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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44325 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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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
    88108 likes

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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177019 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom
    6225 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: god, humor, money
    3321 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: disapproval, humor, wordplay
    1424 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: epitaph, humor, the-new-yorker
    850 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: humor
    228 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: wordplay
    1258 likes

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  • #29
    Dorothy Parker
    “There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    186 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “Women and elephants never forget.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    246 likes



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