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Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

by Mark Twain

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Derek’s Quotes

“Something that is yours forever is never precious”
― Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev

tags: life, love, my-name-is-asher-lev, value

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“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes

tags: sherlock-holmes, silence

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“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

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“words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion within the human heart that can never be reversed.”
― Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife

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