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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    “You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
    ― Olin Miller
    tags: confidence, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, others, think, worry
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: humor, risque
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Douglas Adams
    “A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: life
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    Douglas Adams
    “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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    Oscar Wilde
    “This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: last-words, taste, wallpaper
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: common-sense, mistakes, paradox, timidity, wisdom
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    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    ― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters
    tags: friends, humor, people
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    Jane Austen
    “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: classics
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    Jane Austen
    “Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: foolishness, intelligence, sense, stupidity
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    Voltaire
    “Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: food
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    Voltaire
    “Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: doubt
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    Voltaire
    “Let us cultivate our garden.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Groucho Marx
    “Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: humor
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    Groucho Marx
    “Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: humor
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    Groucho Marx
    “I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.”
    ― Groucho Marx
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    Groucho Marx
    “When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: friends, humor, jail
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France
    Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance
    To escape from the perilous pants eating plants
    But your pants are safe, you’re a fortunate guy
    You ought to be shouting how lucky am I”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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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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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: bookshop, bookstore, discworld, read, reading
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Eric
    tags: erotic, kinky, suggestive
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
    tags: humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
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