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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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    Terry Pratchett
    “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
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    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife
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    Jane Austen
    “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: romantic
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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
    “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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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
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    Joseph Heller
    “Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
    ― Joseph Heller
    tags: humor
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell
    tags: expectation, hope, life
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    Rick Moody
    “I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
    ― Rick Moody
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: humor, semantics, suspicion
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    Jane Austen
    “Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: elizabeth-bennet
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    Mark Twain
    “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
    tags: travel
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    Juliet Marillier
    “If a man truly loves,....He does not consider the obstacles, the restrictions, the reasons why his choice may be flawed or impratical. He gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings.”
    ― Juliet Marillier, Cybele's Secret
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    Jane Austen
    “How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: life
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: gullibility
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    Lloyd C. Douglas
    “Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view--and feel exalted--and your eyes are full of happy tears--and you want to sing--and wish you had wings! And then--you can't stay there, but must continue your journey--you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten.”
    ― Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe
    tags: happiness, inspirational, life
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    Juliet Marillier
    “If a man has to say trust me it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you do without words.”
    ― Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing
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    Mark Adams
    “On a globe it looks like a swollen California. Within that space, though, are twenty-thousand-foot peaks, the world’s deepest canyon (twice as deep as the Grand Canyon), unmapped Amazon jungle and the driest desert on earth.”
    ― Mark Adams, Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
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    Mark Adams
    “Separating fact and fiction in Inca history is impossible, because virtually all the sources available are Spanish accounts of stories that had already been vetted by the Inca emperors to highlight their own heroic roles. Imagine a history of modern Iraq written by Dick Cheney and based on authorized biographies of Sadam Hussein published in Arabic, and you'll get some idea of what historians face.”
    ― Mark Adams, Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
    tags: humor, machu-picchu, peru, travel
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    “Tell me what it is like to die," I answered.
    He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while. "You experience something similar every day," he said softly. "It is as familiar to you as bread and butter."
    "Yes," I said. "It is like every night when I fall asleep."
    "No. It is like every morning when you wake up.”
    ― Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord Death
    tags: death
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    “If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but only to avoid an early demise. No one would speak out against evil because of his own courageous soul, but only to live another day. The right to choose is man's great gift, but one thing is not his to choose--the time and means of death.”
    ― Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord Death
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    “Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.”
    ― Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord Death
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    Criss Jami
    “The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: achievement, barrier, determination, development, feelings, help, helping-hand, humility, improvement, inferiority, intelligence, knowledge, learning, self-improvement, taught, teaching, wisdom
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    Neil Gaiman
    “When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: writing
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “...writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.”
    ― wodehouse, P.G.
    tags: humor, writing-life
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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