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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books-reading
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    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower
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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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    Jane Austen
    “Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”
    ― Jane Austen, Love and Freindship
    tags: advice-for-daily-living
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    Jane Austen
    “It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: eating-reading
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I cannot live without books.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: books
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    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
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    “Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it...well with no mistakes in it yet.”
    ― Ms. Stacy
    tags: anne-of-green-gables
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    Jane Austen
    “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser!”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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    Jane Austen
    “An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: choice, husbands, marriage, parents, proposals
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    Lisa Tawn Bergren
    “Lia aimed, shifted and waited, watching one man peek out time and time again. She let her arrow fly anticipating his next peek at us and it pierced his eye.

    “Okay that’s just going to make ’em mad ” I said.

    “Three hundred and ninety-two ” she said to Luca tossing her braid over her shoulder and taking aim again.

    “Saints in heaven ” he said to me rolling his eyes “how much deeper in love can I yet fall?”
    ― Lisa Tawn Bergren, Cascade
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Helen Keller
    “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    ― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
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    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
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Lisa Tawn Bergren
    “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than fear.”
    ― Lisa Tawn Bergren, Waterfall
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    C.S. Lewis
    “That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads."
    "That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
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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
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
    tags: inspirational, mistakes
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
    tags: home, inspirational, pearls, pleasures, simple
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
    tags: anne-of-green-gables
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    Jesseca Wheaton
    “Win or lose the battle, you're on the winning side because you know the Lord." ~ Rowen”
    ― Jesseca Wheaton, The Silent Blade
    tags: inspirational, ireland, jesseca-wheaton, siblings, the-silent-blade
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    Victoria Lynn
    “Her words echoed in his head and a faint hope kindled and grew into a timid blaze. Whosoever. Anyone can be forgiven by God.”
    ― Victoria Lynn, London in the Dark
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    C.S. Lewis
    “It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?"
    "But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan.
    "Are -are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund.
    "I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    tags: aslan, narnia
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