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    Jane Austen
    “I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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    Jane Austen
    “Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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    Jane Austen
    “There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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    Jane Austen
    “One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
    tags: battle-of-the-sexes, life
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    Jane Austen
    “Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
    tags: life, music
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You see, but you do not observe.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia
    tags: kindlehighlight
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    tags: sherlock-holmes, silence
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: books, humor
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: dr-watson, introduction, sherlock-holmes
    866 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
    tags: curiosity, epigram, tabloid-journalism, wisdom
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    Joseph Heller
    “Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
    tags: misattributed-kurt-cobain
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “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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    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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    Gertrude Stein
    “If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.”
    ― Gertrude Stein
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: men, rescuing, women
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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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    Evelyn Waugh
    “O God, make me good, but not yet.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.”
    ― Nabokov Vladimi, Lolita
    tags: exist, imagine, need, reader
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    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books-reading
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    S.S. Van Dine
    “We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments.
    Every human act — no matter how large or how small— is a direct expression of
    a man's personality, and bears the inevitable impress of his nature.”
    ― S.S. van Dine
    tags: art, character, nature-of-man, personality, psychology
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