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    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
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    Epictetus
    “It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance”
    ― Epictetus
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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    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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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education-knowledge
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: drama, humor, plays
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: life-surrealistic
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Who, being loved, is poor?”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
    tags: classic-insult
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: epigram
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: devil, hell, world
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yet each man kills the thing he loves
    By each let this be heard
    Some do it with a bitter look
    Some with a flattering word
    The coward does it with a kiss
    The brave man with a sword”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
    tags: 1897, betrayal, bravery, courage, love, remorse
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: pleasure
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: blame, guilt
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: life
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    Aesop
    “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
    ― Aesop
    tags: compassion, inspirational, kindness
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    Groucho Marx
    “I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: carpe-diem, happiness, live-in-the-moment, self-determination
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: inspiration
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    Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
    “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
    ― Johann wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: knowledge
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “I love those who yearn for the impossible.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Anatole France
    “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
    ― Anatole France
    tags: animals, love, pets
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    Anatole France
    “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
    ― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
    tags: inspirational
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”
    ― Johann wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: growth, journey, purpose
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
    tags: communication, knowledge, languages, travel, understanding
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.”
    ― Johann wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: political-philosophy
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