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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    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
    tags: books, library
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom
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    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
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    Jane Austen
    “Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
    ― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
    tags: humor
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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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    David Bowie
    “I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”
    ― David Bowie
    tags: david-bowie
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    David Bowie
    “Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.”
    ― David Bowie
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    Robertson Davies
    “A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
    ― Robertson Davies
    tags: architecture, books, perspective, reading, rereading
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    Robertson Davies
    “Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.”
    ― Robertson Davies
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
    ― Friedrich W. Nietzsche
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    Edith Wharton
    “My little old dog
    a heart-beat
    at my feet”
    ― Edith Wharton
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