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Brenda’s Quotes

“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: education, goodness, intelligence, kindness, scholarship

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.”
― Rory Stewart, The Places in Between

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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

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“I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.”
― Woody Allen

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