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    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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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: allegory, books, literature
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
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    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
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower
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    Jane Austen
    “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
    ― Jane Austen
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  • #8
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #9
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #12
    Leo Tolstoy
    “All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: fishing
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Teach French and unteach sincerity.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
    tags: black-and-white-thinking, evil, good, good-and-evil
    2171 likes

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  • #16
    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder
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  • #17
    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
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  • #18
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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  • #19
    “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
    ― Anonymous
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  • #20
    Socrates
    “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
    ― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates
    tags: contentment, philosophy
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  • #21
    Socrates
    “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: avarice, contentment, gluttony, greed
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  • #23
    Socrates
    “To find yourself, think for yourself.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: independence, self-reliance
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  • #24
    Plato
    “There is truth in wine and children”
    ― Plato, Symposium / Phaedrus
    tags: aphorism
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  • #25
    J.D. Salinger
    “If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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  • #26
    Pope Benedict XVI
    “The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.”
    ― Joseph Ratzinger
    tags: life, love, truth, wisdom
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
    ― C. S. Lewis
    tags: freedom, morality, politics, wisdom
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  • #28
    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: truth
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  • #29
    Flannery O'Connor
    “I write to discover what I know.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
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  • #30
    Augustine of Hippo
    “In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.”
    ― St. Augustine
    369 likes



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