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    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
    “Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I.”
    ― Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
    tags: romantic
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    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
    “Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.”
    ― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses
    tags: evil, good, humanity, virtue
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    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
    “I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.”
    ― Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses
    tags: happiness, money
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    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
    “...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.”
    ― Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses
    tags: choice, illusion, life
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    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
    “...she refuses all amorous alms, and such a refusal, to my view, justifies a theft.”
    ― Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses
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    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
    “I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.”
    ― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses
    tags: charity, good-works, vicomte-de-valmont, virtue
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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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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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    Neil Gaiman
    “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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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Winter is coming.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: forcasting, mottos, winter
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  • #20
    John Gardner
    “Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign”
    ― John Gardner
    tags: art, creepy, criticism
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