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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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    Jane Austen
    “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
    ― Jane Austen
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    Nancy Reagan
    “A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.”
    ― Nancy Reagan
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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    Wilkie Collins
    “My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
    ― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
    tags: afternoon, schedule, tea, toast
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    Audrey Hepburn
    “When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: aloneness, loneliness
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor, taste
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: animals, cats, dogs, equality, pigs, respect
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: forcasting, future-plans
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    Rupert Brooke
    “Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
    And is there honey still for tea?”
    ― Rupert Brooke, The old vicarage, Grantchester
    tags: comfort, friends, honey, tea, teatime
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
    tags: literature, reading, writing
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    “There's a book in you that only you can write.”
    ― Chris Baty
    tags: nanowrmo
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    Stephen King
    “you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Kathryn Stockett
    “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
    ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
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    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    ― Linda Grayson
    tags: chocolate, friendship
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Les Brown
    “You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.”
    ― Les Brown, Live Your Dreams: Les Brown's Formula and Action Planner for Achieving Success and Happiness
    tags: inspirational
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    Andy Rooney
    “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”
    ― Andy Rooney
    tags: growth, happiness, inspiration
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    Audrey Hepburn
    “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: happiness, life
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    Beatrix Potter
    “Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”
    ― Beatrix Potter
    tags: creativity, education, self-education, uniqueness
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    Enid Blyton
    “The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.”
    ― Enid Blyton, Mr Galliano's Circus
    tags: laugh, obstacles, stepping-stone, tread
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    Rupert Brooke
    “If I should die, think only this of me:
    That there's some corner of a foreign field
    That is for ever England.”
    ― Rupert Brooke, 1914, and other poems
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    Jasper Fforde
    “Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
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    Anna Quindlen
    “In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, reading, travel
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    Silvia Hartmann
    “Less flapping, more flying!”
    ― Silvia Hartmann
    tags: flapper, flapping, flying, humor
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    Pauline Wiles
    “wondering if this was how I was going to end up: eccentric and alone.”
    ― Pauline Wiles, Saving Saffron Sweeting
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    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    ― John A. Shedd
    tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk
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