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神雕俠侶第三新修版

by Jin Yong

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Duckie’s Quotes

“A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

tags: dead-souls, literature, nikolai-gogol, russian-literature

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“You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

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“It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

tags: disability, innovation

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“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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“My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

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