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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

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“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

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― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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