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Lydia’s Quotes

Lewis Carroll
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll
tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
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Dan Brown
“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress
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George R.R. Martin
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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Abraham Lincoln
“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”
― Abraham Lincoln
tags: abraham-lincoln, courage
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Stephen King
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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