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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck
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She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.Joe Hill
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
"Morgan le Fay rippled along as musically as ever. Marvellous woman. And what a glance she had: when it fell in reproof upon those servants, they shrank and quailed as timid people do when the lightning flashes out of a cloud."

It should be no surpris...more
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Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
"All children, except one, grow up."

I wish I read Peter Pan at a younger age because it's so full of the magic and wonder and escapism that a child craves and dreams of. The make-believe of it all, the adventures and the characters are so exceptional...more
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Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.Niccolò Machiavelli
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
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“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”

So many people despise Heathcliffe in this nov...more
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William Shakespeare
“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
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Mark Twain
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
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“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dr. Seuss
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
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