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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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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
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
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    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: elizabeth-bennet, jane-austen
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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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    Jane Austen
    “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: love, romance
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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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    Jane Austen
    “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: happiness
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    Jane Austen
    “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Jane Austen
    “I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: happiness, laughter, smiles
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.”
    ― Shannon Alder
    tags: betrayal, break-ups, cheating, class, compassion, courtesy, gentleman, honor, ladies, leading-a-woman-on, love, manners, manning-up, men, mixed-signals, players, relationships, respect, respecting-others, respecting-women, true-gentlemen
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    Bryant McGill
    “No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.”
    ― Bryant McGill
    tags: courtesy, manners, politenessness, rudeness
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    “Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.”
    ― Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib A.S
    tags: courtesy, inspirational
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy to remind you of your worth, or the integrity of a gentleman to walk you home.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: be-better, beliefs, choices, courtesy, dating, dignity, feelings, freedom, gentleman, heaven, help-others, home, honor, integrity, lift-others, love, manners, quality, quality-men, relationships, respect-others, right-path, rise-higher, self-confidence, self-respect, self-worth, the-moon, warrior-women
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    Judith Martin
    “Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible to everyone at all times, and it is the person who refuses to be on call, rather than the importunate caller, who is considered rude.”
    ― Judith Martin, Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson
    tags: courtesy, manners, miss-manners
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    Madame de Staël
    “Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.”
    ― Madame de Stael
    tags: courtesy, thoughts
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    Georgette Heyer
    “[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results.”
    ― Georgette Heyer, Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle
    tags: common-sense, courtesy, gratitude, thank-you
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “Annabelle gave him a chiding smile. “If you’re implying that I’m spoiled, I assure you that I am not.”

    “You should be.” His warm gaze slid over her pink-tinted face and slender upper body, then sought hers again. There was a note in his voice that gently robbed her of breath. “You could do with a bit of spoiling.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Secrets of a Summer Night
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    Julianne Donaldson
    “You are not The Giver of My Heart’s Desire.” I took a deep breath and smiled. “You are my heart’s desire.”
    ― Julianne Donaldson, Blackmoore
    tags: historical-romance
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    Julie Garwood
    “Someday, my love, you're going to understand just how much I care for you. You're my light, my warmth, my other half. I only feel alive when I'm with you. I love you." Caine”
    ― Julie Garwood, Guardian Angel
    tags: historical-romance, julie-garwood, love, romance
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    Elizabeth Hoyt
    “Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart.”
    ― Elizabeth Hoyt, Wicked Intentions
    tags: historical-romance
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Married by Morning
    tags: historical-romance, lisa-kleypas
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    Tessa Dare
    “He kissed her. Without warning, without permission. Without even deciding to do it, but simply because he couldn't have done anything else. He needed that breath she was holding. It belonged to him, and he wanted it back.”
    ― Tessa Dare, One Dance with a Duke
    tags: historical-romance, one-dance-with-a-duke, regency, stud-club
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    Diana Gabaldon
    “If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes
    tags: historical-romance, love, outlander
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    Wes Moore
    “When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.”
    ― Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
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    Wes Moore
    “The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.”
    ― Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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