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    George Eliot
    “We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
    ― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
    tags: childhood, love, nature
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    Plato
    “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome
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  • #3
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    Jane Austen
    “It is such a happiness when good people get together -- and they always do.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: emma, miss-bates, weddings
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    Jane Austen
    “I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
    tags: emma, jane-austen
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: coffee, compliments, little-women, louisa-may-alcott
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Don't try to make me grow up before my time…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: growing-up, little-women, louisa-may-alcott
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, shadow, sunshine
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: dreams, growing-up, little-women, louisa-may-alcott
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I wish I had no heart, it aches so…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: heart, little-women, louisa-may-alcott
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: hearts, little-women, louisa-may-alcott
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands."

    "They're not empty now.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: genius, little-women, louisa-may-alcott, talent
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: little-women, loneliness, louisa-may-alcott
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: birthdays, little-women, louisa-may-alcott
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “But, like all happiness, it did not last long…”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: happiness, little-women, louisa-may-alcott
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
    tags: education
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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    Margaret Atwood
    “But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: memory, pain
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: better
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    Margaret Atwood
    “We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
    We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: freedom, stories
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    Margaret Atwood
    “When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: memory, remembrance, the-past
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    Margaret Atwood
    “A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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  • #30
    Margaret Atwood
    “You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: jealousy
    811 likes



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