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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Jane Austen
    “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Katherine Anne Porter
    “The past is never where you think you left it.”
    ― Katherine Anne Porter
    tags: past
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    L. Frank Baum
    “There is no place like home.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
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    Desmond Tutu
    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness
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    Abraham H. Maslow
    “To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
    ― Abraham Maslow
    tags: tools
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    Gertrude Stein
    “We are always the same age inside. ”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: self-confidence
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: happiness
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
    ― Herman Hesse
    tags: steppenwolf
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    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    ― Anne Tyler
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    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
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  • #14
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: eating-reading
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    Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
    “Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
    ― Eleanor Hodgman Porter
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    Robert Burns
    “We two have paddled in the stream,
    from morning sun till dine;
    But seas between us broad have roared
    since days of long ago.”
    ― Robert Burns
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  • #17
    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: philosophy, science
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    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
    ― Barbara W. Tuchman
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    Lisa Scottoline
    “How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?
    The patients get better and leave.”
    ― Lisa Scottoline , Every Fifteen Minutes
    tags: humor, medicine
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
    tags: grudges
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe
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    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith
    tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude
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    Langston Hughes
    “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
    ― Langston Hughes
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    Giacomo Casanova
    “Be the flame, not the moth.”
    ― Giacomo Casanova
    tags: passion, self-destruction
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  • #25
    Colette
    “Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
    ― Colette
    tags: animals, companions, friends, pets
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    Gerald Durrell
    “A house is not a home until it has a dog.”
    ― Gerald Durrell
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser!”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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