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    E.E. Cummings
    “listen: there’s a hell
    of a good universe next door; let’s go”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: ee-cummings, poetry
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
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    Charles Dickens
    “And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the skeleton allotted to me for my mortal companion.”
    ― Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
    tags: charles-dickens, victorian, writing-life
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
    tags: kierkegaard, philosophy
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: c-s-lewis, philosophy
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
    tags: emerson, transcendentalism
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    Charles Dickens
    “There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.”
    ― Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
    tags: charles-dickens, disease, victorian
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    Walt Whitman
    “Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: change
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
    tags: christian-behavior, christianity, pacifism, religion
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing--such as making love.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: comedy, love
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    George Orwell
    “One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.”
    ― George Orwell, Decline Of The English Murder and Other Essays
    tags: age, death, health, orwell
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    William Hazlitt
    “A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.”
    ― William Hazlitt, Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners
    tags: chess, essays, great-men, greatness
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
    tags: atheism, reading, religion
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
    tags: books, humor, reading
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.”
    ― Cervantes Saavedra
    tags: classic, funny, humor
    281 likes

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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: ethics, firearms
    740 likes

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    G.K. Chesterton
    “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: adventure, inconvenience, perspectives
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
    tags: love, men, women
    850 likes

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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
    409 likes

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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.”
    ― Dorothy Sayers , Gaudy Night
    tags: originality, quotations, thought
    162 likes

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    Thomas Hardy
    “When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes
    tags: lovers, relationships, secrets, women
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    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy
    tags: kittens, love, young-love
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    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that there are no race of people who talk about books, or, perhaps, who read books, so little as literary men.”
    ― William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy
    tags: books, literature, society
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    Thomas Carlyle
    “If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.”
    ― Thomas Carlyle
    tags: atheism, atheist, religion
    222 likes

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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There is something sinister about putting a leprechaun in a workhouse. The only solid comfort is that he certainly will not work.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 28: The Illustrated London News, 1908-1910
    tags: humor, leprechaun, medieval-literature
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce
    tags: humorous, revenge, vanity, women
    114 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
    27859 likes

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    Alessandro Manzoni
    “I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.”
    ― Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed
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    E.M. Forster
    “Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.”
    ― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
    tags: books, education, learning, reading, scholorship
    17 likes



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