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#1

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

tags: books

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#2

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

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#3

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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#4

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#5

“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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#6

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#7

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: animals, ethics, gandhi, morals

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#8

“As the natural coherence of the world vanishes, there's a guilt that grows great and angry in the basement of our beings.”
― Laurens van der Post

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#9

“And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Law of Similars

tags: future, past

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#10

“I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better....”
― Chris Bohjalian, Secrets of Eden

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#11

“Boys look at us like we look at horses: color, height, eyes. tail. They can't help but have preferences.”
― Chris Bohjalian, Midwives

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#12

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#13

“Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.”
― Friedrich von Logau

tags: god, justice, patience, retribution

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