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#1

“When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they may?'

When your ladyship has ceased to be the most admired woman in Europe, namely, when I am in my grave.”
― Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

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#2

“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

tags: cowardice, doubt, resolve, self-doubt

1820 likes

#3

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

tags: loquacity, remaining-silent, silence

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#4

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: god, world

12760 likes

#5

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

tags: chocolate, friendship

16488 likes

#6

“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

51669 likes

#7

“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

8996 likes

#8

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy

36857 likes

#9

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#10

“No story ever really ends, and I think I know why. ”
― George MacDonald

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#11

“Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

tags: blessings, gratefulness, misfortunes, reflection

987 likes

#12

“[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.”
― Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

tags: credit, debt, money

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#13

“Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.”
― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

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#14

“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
― Dinah Maria Craik

tags: misattributed

1118 likes

#15

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: courage, fear, leadership, strength

985 likes

#16

“Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?"

Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better!”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped

tags: friendship

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