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    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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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I always advise people never to give advice.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: advice
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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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    Charles Dickens
    “Are there no prisons?”
    ― Dickens, Charles, A Christmas Carol
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    Charles Dickens
    “If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    J.M. Barrie
    “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
    ― J.M. Barrie
    tags: memory
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
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    Maya Angelou
    “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: inspiration
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    Richard Llewellyn
    “O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”
    ― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
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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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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    William Arthur Ward
    “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
    ― William Arthur Ward
    tags: realist
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
    ― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
    tags: christmas
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    Kirsten Hubbard
    “Even when life turns out different than what you've planned, it's always better to try and fail than to wonder what could have been.”
    ― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Christopher Paolini
    “Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
    ― Christopher Paolini
    tags: books, reading
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?"
    "No, indeed!"
    "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged."
    "My dear fellow! I congrat-"
    "To Milverton's housemaid."
    "My dear Holmes!"
    "I wanted information, Watson.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
    tags: mental, mind, mystery, rebellion, sherlock-holmes, stagnation
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
    tags: impossible
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You know my methods. Apply them.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
    tags: detection, investigation, methods, sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
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  • #26
    “A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.”
    ― Frank Morgan
    tags: love
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  • #27
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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  • #28
    “So, why do you write these strong female characters?

    Because you’re still asking me that question."

    [Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: femininism, progress, understanding
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  • #29
    “Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: human-nature, power, wisdom
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  • #30
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
    25169 likes



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