Evelyn

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Evelyn’s Quotes

“O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?”
― Wilfred Owen, The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

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“Taking a single letter from the alphaber," he said, "should make life simpler."

"I don't see why. Take the F from life and you have lie. It's adding a letter to simple that makes it simpler. Taking a letter from hoarder makes it harder.”
― James Thurber, The Wonderful O

tags: life, simpler, witty

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“ouch, an egg!”
― Franklin Pierce

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“The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Globe

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“Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock

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