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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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    George Herbert
    “The best mirror is an old friend.”
    ― George Herbert
    tags: friendship
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: friendship, literature
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  • #4
    Aristotle
    “A friend to all is a friend to none.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: friendship
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  • #5
    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape
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  • #6
    Kahlil Gibran
    “For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?

    Seek him always with hours to live.

    For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.

    And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

    For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: friendship
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  • #7
    Michel de Montaigne
    “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: humility, throne
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  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor, science
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  • #9
    Erich Segal
    “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
    ― Erich Segal
    tags: love
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  • #10
    “Even
    After
    All this time
    The Sun never says to the Earth,

    "You owe me."

    Look
    What happens
    With a love like that,
    It lights the whole sky.”
    ― Hafiz
    tags: life, love, sky, sun
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  • #11
    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: friendship, love
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  • #12
    Baltasar Gracián
    “A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
    ― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
    tags: advice, enemies, foolishness, friends, friendship, strategy, war, wisdom
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  • #13
    “I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
    ― J. Richard Lessor
    tags: happiness, inspirational
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
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  • #15
    Neil Gaiman
    “You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: self-reliance
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    Neil Gaiman
    “The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sour with the same tongue.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
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    Alphonse Karr
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
    ― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden
    tags: complaints, glass-half-full, gratitude, misattributed-abraham-lincoln, optimism, perspective, pessimism, positive-thinking, roses, thorns
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    Ray Bradbury
    “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: friendship, heart, kindness
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    Plato
    “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
    ― Plato
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: epistemology, poetry
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  • #22
    Pablo Neruda
    “I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    tags: love, poetry
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  • #23
    José N. Harris
    “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
    ― José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love
    tags: grief, grieving, hope, loss, love, pain, sadness, strength, tears
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  • #24
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: funny
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  • #26
    Lao Tzu
    “Knowing others is intelligence;
    knowing yourself is true wisdom.
    Mastering others is strength;
    mastering yourself is true power.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: wisdom
    5131 likes

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  • #27
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
    What's a sundial in the shade?”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: talent, wisdom, work
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  • #28
    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
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  • #29
    Plato
    “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
    ― Plato
    tags: discipline, education, mentoring, philosophy
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  • #30
    Kahlil Gibran
    “The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.”
    ― Khalil Gibran
    tags: manners
    302 likes



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