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#1

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#2

“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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#3

“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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#4

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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#5

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#6

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#7

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
― Omar Khayyám

tags: indelibility, poetry, regret, time

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#8

“Monty Python is like catnip for nerds. Once you get them started quoting it, they are constitutionally incapable of feeling depressed.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hounded

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#9

“Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hounded

tags: british, death

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#10

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

tags: fear, grief, sorrow

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#11

“Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.”
― Ellis Peters, A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs

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#12

“All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.”
― Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many

tags: corruption, good-and-evil, right-and-wrong

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#13

“Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.”
― Ellis Peters

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#14

“Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all.”
― Ellis Peters, A Morbid Taste for Bones

tags: equality

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#15

“Perhaps thought really is prayer.”
― Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many

tags: prayer

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#16

“God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.”
― Ellis Peters, A Morbid Taste for Bones

tags: god

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#17

“Nothing learned is ever quite wasted.”
― Ellis Peters, The Raven in the Foregate

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#18

“The best way to get the sweet out of children and escape the bitter is to have them by proxy.”
― Ellis Peters, A Morbid Taste for Bones

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#19

“Where there is no certainty the mind must turn to the light and not the shadow.”
― Ellis Peters

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#20

“Questions are as supple as willow wands, it's easy to brush by them and slip them aside, and no one the worse for it.”
― Ellis Peters, The Rose Rent

tags: boundaries, privacy, questions

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#21

“He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,”
― Ellis Peters

tags: grief, monastery, prayer, silence

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#22

“Even the very system of bishoprics galled the devout adherents of the old, saintly Celtic church, that had no worldly trappings, courted no thrones, but rather withdrew from the world into the blessed solitude of thought and prayer.”
― Ellis Peters, A Morbid Taste for Bones

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#23

“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

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#24

“I don't allow my child to drink carbonated sugar!"
"Well, bless your heart." With that eyebrow arch for Charlotte, Lily took Cate's hand. "Guess who's not in charge today?”
― Nora Roberts, Hideaway

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#25

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

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#26

“You can fix anything but a blank page.”
― Nora Roberts

tags: on-writing, storytelling, writing

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#27

“When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions.”
― Nora Roberts

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#28

“It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.”
― Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After

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#29

“I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.”
― Nora Roberts, Face the Fire

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#30

“Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks

For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.”
― Nora Roberts, Bed of Roses

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