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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
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  • #2
    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: humor, mankind, people
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    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-reading
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  • #5
    Lemony Snicket
    “People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
    tags: life
    7213 likes

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  • #6
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: humor, religion
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  • #7
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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  • #8
    Lemony Snicket
    “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: libraries, reading
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  • #9
    Lemony Snicket
    “If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: humor, talking, writers
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  • #10
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
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  • #11
    Lemony Snicket
    “All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: reading-secrets
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  • #12
    Lemony Snicket
    “Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival
    tags: humor-miracles
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  • #13
    Lemony Snicket
    “Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: babies, change, humor, love, parents
    3167 likes

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  • #14
    Lemony Snicket
    “The world is quiet here.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
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  • #15
    Lemony Snicket
    “But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible....”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: integrity
    512 likes

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  • #16
    Lemony Snicket
    “Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
    tags: morning
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    Lemony Snicket
    “A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
    tags: experience
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  • #18
    Lemony Snicket
    “Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate, if the cup of hot chocolate had vinegar added to it and were placed in a refrigerator for several hours.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: simile
    385 likes

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  • #19
    Lemony Snicket
    “Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope
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  • #20
    Lemony Snicket
    “If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor
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  • #21
    Lemony Snicket
    “Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person. . . . But it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope
    tags: readers
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  • #22
    Lemony Snicket
    “There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
    tags: books
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  • #23
    Lemony Snicket
    “Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal
    tags: miracles, pimples, simile
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  • #24
    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: fate, humor, simile
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  • #25
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130158 likes

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  • #26
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148416 likes

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  • #27
    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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  • #28
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64648 likes

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  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92189 likes

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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71687 likes



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