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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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“Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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“Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: humor, trees

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#4

“Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: inspirational

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#5

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
― J.K. Rowling

tags: books

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“Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?”
― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: death, epitaph, irony, snape

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#7

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

tags: chocolate, friendship

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#8

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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#9

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: closing-line, last-words, self-sacrifice

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#10

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: growth, heart, life, suffering

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#11

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: christmas

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#12

“Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.”
― Charles Dickens

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#13

“I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.”
― Charles Dickens

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#14

“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
― Charles Dickens

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#15

“Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: clichés, nails, similes, well-worn-phrases

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“In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: children, education, fair-play, injustice, punishment

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#17

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
― Aristotle

tags: education

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#18

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

tags: education, ethics

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#19

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule

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#20

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
― Aristotle

tags: greek, mentors, philosophy, teachers

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#21

“Wit is educated insolence.”
― Aristotle

tags: definitions, humor

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#22

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness

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#23

“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
― Aristotle

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#24

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own”
― Aristotle

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#25

“He who hath many friends hath none.”
― Aristotle

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#26

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy

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#27

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance

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#28

“There is truth in wine and children”
― Plato, Symposium / Phaedrus

tags: aphorism

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#29

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

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#30

“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

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