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Joel

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Joel’s Notes & Highlights

The Highway Man by J. Alchem

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“Good time is fleet-footed bliss. Bad time crawls.”

Joel’s Quotes

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

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― William Durant

tags: knowledge-habit-inspirational

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“Wil Wheaton Says: Don't be a dick.”
― Wil Wheaton

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