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The Witch Who Will Be Queen (The Royal Bloodlines #1)

by Courtney Dean (Goodreads Author)

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Twisted Intentions by B.M. Hardin

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“And you called your husband his dead father’s name?” Jocelyn seemed somewhat amused.

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“If you believe in a cause, be willing to stand up for that cause with a million people or by yourself.”
― Otis S. Johnson, FROM "N" WORD TO MR. MAYOR

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“Nobody,
Nobody can be sure they're always right.
The ones who are fullest of themselves that way
Are the emptiest vessels.”
― Seamus Heaney, The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone

tags: being-right, cockiness, correctness

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“What good are those wings if you can't use them to fly?”
― Jamie A. Triplin, Malia the Merfairy and The Lucky Rainbow Cake

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“The problem with the world today is that there are too many assholes and not enough saints.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, COFFEE ASS BLUES & OTHER POEMS

tags: assholes, politicians, saints, truisms

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“The more a person needs to be right, the less certain he is.”
― Meir Ezra

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