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  • #1
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #2
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #5
    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    Jim Henson

  • #6
    Dorothy Parker
    Résumé
    Razors pain you,
    Rivers are damp,
    Acids stain you,
    And drugs cause cramp.
    Guns aren't lawful,
    Nooses give,
    Gas smells awful.
    You might as well live.”
    Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

  • #7
    Dorothy Parker
    “Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #8
    John Green
    “Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
    John Green

  • #9
    Elbert Hubbard
    “Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #10
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #11
    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #12
    John Green
    “Straight and fast.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #13
    Shannon L. Alder
    “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #14
    Steve Maraboli
    “If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free



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