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    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: adventure, love
    17494 likes

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    Samuel Johnson
    “To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.”
    ― Samuel Johnson
    tags: secret
    91 likes

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    Charles de Gaulle
    “Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.”
    ― Charles de Gaulle
    tags: power, silence, weapon, weapons
    270 likes

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  • #5
    “Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.”
    ― David Lloyd George
    tags: goal, step, try
    54 likes

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: acceptance, contentment, raining
    1663 likes

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  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age, discretion, secret, trust, truth, woman
    1166 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
    tags: writing
    6213 likes

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  • #9
    Finley Peter Dunne
    “The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.”
    ― Finley Peter Dunne
    tags: better, world, worse
    12 likes

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  • #10
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: definitions, tact, wit
    658 likes

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  • #11
    Benjamin Franklin
    “He that can have patience can have what he will.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: determination, inspirational, patience
    1833 likes

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  • #12
    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    ― John A. Shedd
    tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk
    3835 likes

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  • #13
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    tags: opinion, prejudice
    55 likes

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  • #14
    Ingrid Bergman
    “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
    ― Ingrid Bergman
    tags: kiss, love, nature, trick, words
    816 likes

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  • #15
    Will Rogers
    “Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
    ― Will Rogers
    152 likes

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  • #16
    Henry James
    “I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.”
    ― Henry James
    tags: judge, judgement, think
    145 likes

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    Josh Billings
    “The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.”
    ― Josh Billings
    tags: bust, speech, tongue
    55 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, The Quintessence of Ibsenism
    tags: believe, liar, lie, punishment
    1029 likes

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  • #19
    “The chatterer reveals every corner of his shallow mind.”
    ― Mike Bell
    tags: chatter, shallow, speech, tongue
    35 likes

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  • #20
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity
    4570 likes

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  • #21
    Billy Graham
    “When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”
    ― Billy Graham
    tags: brave, bravery
    163 likes

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    H.L. Mencken
    “Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: security, self-respect
    67 likes

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  • #23
    James Russell Lowell
    “A sneer is the weapon of the weak.”
    ― James Russell Lowell
    tags: weak, weakness, weapon
    22 likes

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  • #24
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
    10545 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: friend, judge
    424 likes

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: child, heart, hurt, word, wound
    441 likes

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  • #27
    Edmund Burke
    “Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: admiration, happiness, woman
    578 likes

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  • #28
    William Hazlitt
    “If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.”
    ― William Hazlitt
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    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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    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
    8186 likes

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  • #31
    Jonathan Swift
    “I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: shame, wicked, wonder
    187 likes



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