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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery
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    A.A. Milne
    “The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: independent-thought, thinking
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    Jane Austen
    “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: prejudice, pride, vanity
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.”
    ― L. M. Montgomery
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    Jane Austen
    “Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”
    ― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Without shedding of blood there is no anything… Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again… I don’t think the war has been sent as a punishment for sin. I think it is the price humanity must pay for some blessing - some advance great enough to be worth the price which we may not live to see but which our children’s children will inherit.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside
    tags: life
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    “If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”
    ― Carter Crocker
    tags: confidence
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    Dorothy Parker
    “I hate writing, I love having written.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: writing, writing-process
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: disapproval, humor, wordplay
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    “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
    ― Sid Ziff
    tags: bad-reviews, book, humorist, misattributed-dorothy-parker, wit
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    Dorothy Parker
    “You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
    tags: horticulture, puns
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    Dorothy Parker
    “That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: epitaph, humor, the-new-yorker
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    Dorothy Parker
    “This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."

    [Women Know Everything!]”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: bad-reviews, fancy, raisins, terrible, wordplay
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    Charles Dickens
    “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
    ― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
    tags: biography, opening-lines
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Mistress Pat
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    George Eliot
    “Since you think it my duty, Mr. Farebrother, I will tell you that I have too strong a feeling for Fred to give him up for any one else. I should never be quite happy if I thought he was unhappy for the loss of me. It has taken such deep root in me—my gratitude to him for always loving me best, and minding so much if I hurt myself, from the time when we were very little. I cannot imagine any new feeling coming to make that weaker.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
    tags: inspirational-choice, love
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
    tags: anne-island
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside
    tags: adulthood, growth, soul
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: books
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: inspirational, uplifting
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    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom
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    E.B. White
    “You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.”
    ― E. B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: charlotte, charlotte-s, web
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    Kate DiCamillo
    “I promise to always turn back toward you.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
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    Kate DiCamillo
    “Perhaps what matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down but who picks us up.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, Louisiana's Way Home
    tags: hope, middle-school, resilience
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    Kate DiCamillo
    “All words at all times, true or false, whispered or shouted, are clues to the workings of the human heart.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
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    Kate DiCamillo
    “It was the strangest things, how happiness came out of nowhere and inflated your soul.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale
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