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“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
― Walt Whitman

“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”
― Hugh Lofting

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
― Sir Walter Scott

“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
― Mo Yan, Red Sorghum

“If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.”
― Iris Johansen, Countdown

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim