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    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
    130165 likes

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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    128914 likes

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  • #3
    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
    148428 likes

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  • #4
    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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  • #6
    “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
    64649 likes

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  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92193 likes

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  • #8
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    151437 likes

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  • #9
    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
    37982 likes

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  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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  • #11
    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
    51608 likes

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  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
    46494 likes

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  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
    47063 likes

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  • #14
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
    23096 likes

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  • #15
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
    27861 likes

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  • #16
    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
    11721 likes

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  • #17
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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  • #18
    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
    13688 likes

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  • #19
    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #20
    Joseph Joubert
    “The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
    ― Joseph Joubert
    tags: books, reading
    2356 likes

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  • #21
    Malcolm X
    “My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: books, reading
    2402 likes

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  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: austen, criticism, reading, writing
    1635 likes

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  • #23
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    ― Logan Pearsall Smith
    tags: life, reading
    3930 likes

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  • #24
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
    27730 likes

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  • #25
    Margaret Atwood
    “A word after a word after a word is power.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: reading, writing
    3264 likes

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  • #26
    Jim Bishop
    “Books, I found, had the power to make time
    stand still, retreat or fly into the future.”
    ― Jim Bishop
    tags: reading
    99 likes

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  • #27
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: literature, nabokov, quote, reader, reading
    222 likes

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  • #28
    Horace Mann
    “A house without books is like a room without windows.”
    ― Horace Mann
    tags: books, house, simile, windows
    3193 likes

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  • #29
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: books, literature, on-fiction
    2594 likes



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