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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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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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    J.K. Rowling
    “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
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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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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    Winston S. Churchill
    “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor, taste
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: hell, perseverance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: history, humor, writing
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: books
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: change
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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    Victor Hugo
    “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: apothegm, optimism
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, books
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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
    ― Robert Ingersoll
    tags: adversity, character, power
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational, philosophical, politics, religion, religious
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: books, originality, unique
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
    ― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII
    tags: freedom, liberty, slavery
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I cannot live without books.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: books
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: writing
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, jefferson, security, thomas, thomas-jefferson
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: education, illiteracy, journalism, literature
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: hard-work, luck
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    Mark Haddon
    “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
    ― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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    Mark Haddon
    “And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.”
    ― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    tags: achievement, self-confidence
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    Mark Haddon
    “Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.”
    ― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    tags: answers, mystery, the-unknown
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle
    tags: books, humor
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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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