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Elizabeth Birckhead

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Elizabeth’s Quotes

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

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

tags: happiness

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“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”
― Victor Borge

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“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
― Germaine Greer

tags: innocence, libraries, reading, sexuality, virginity

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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Elizabeth’s Groups

MCMLS Mitchell Fiction Book Club — 57 members — last activity Sep 06, 2022 09:38AM
Mitchell Fiction Book Club usually meets at MCMLS George & Cynthia Woods Mitchell Library in The Woodlands, Texas. While we love getting together at t ...more

A Morbid Book Club — 1457 members — last activity Apr 11, 2026 07:40AM
A fan's collection of all the spooky, horrific, but most fascinating #Morbid books that Alaina and Ash of the Morbid Podcast recommend, reference or m ...more