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    S.E. Hinton
    “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth
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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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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
    tags: grudges
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    tags: attributed-no-source, lies, lying, misattributed-mark-twain, statistics, truth
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  • #5
    There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling
    “There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: friendship, happiness, inspirational
    1107 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: romantic
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  • #7
    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
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  • #8
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë
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  • #10
    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife
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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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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    tags: precious, time, truth
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    Jane Austen
    “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: prejudice, pride, vanity
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  • #14
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “You have been resident in my house three months?"

    "Yes, sir."

    "And you came from--?"

    "From Lowood school, in -shire."

    "Ah! a charitable concern. How long were you there?"

    "Eight years."

    "Eight years! you must be tenacious of life.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë
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    Jane Austen
    “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: love, romance
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    John Grisham
    “In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
    ― John Grisham
    tags: inspirational-life
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    Jane Austen
    “My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
    'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: anne-eliot, good-company, jane-austen, persuasion
    1986 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: truth
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    Jane Austen
    “An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: choice, husbands, marriage, parents, proposals
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  • #23
    Jessamyn West
    “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
    ― Jessamyn West
    tags: books, on-fiction, reality, truth
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  • #24
    Jane Austen
    “Till this moment I never knew myself.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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  • #25
    Jane Austen
    “I am heartily ashamed of myself, Lizzy. But don't despair, it'll pass; and no doubt more quickly than it should.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130138 likes

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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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  • #28
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
    88102 likes

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  • #29
    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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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71691 likes



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