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“The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.”
― Lemony Snicket

“How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless."

"Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."

"I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson