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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Oscar Wilde
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

Friedrich Nietzsche
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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