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#1

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

18882 likes

#2

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

tags: happiness, sanity

4455 likes

#3

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
― Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle

tags: government, kidding, misattributed-mark-twain, stupidity

1409 likes

#4

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

tags: history

2252 likes

#5

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

1051 likes

#6

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

tags: darkness, human-nature, moon

3789 likes

#7

“Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.”
― Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

tags: music

45 likes

#8

“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

88112 likes

#9

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis

21133 likes

#10

“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

27870 likes

#11

“I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: inspirational-prayer

2283 likes

#12

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
― C.S. Lewis

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#13

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books-reading

7320 likes

#14

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

tags: art, books

2334 likes

#15

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”

1441 likes

#16

“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

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#17

“Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: c-s-lewis

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#18

“Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up they were so used to quarreling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

339 likes

#19

“Make your choice, adventurous Stranger,
Strike the bell and bide the danger,
Or wonder, till it drives you mad,
What would have followed if you had.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

774 likes

#20

“Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it.”
― Charles Carleton Coffin, The Story of Liberty: So You Will Comprehend What Liberty Has Cost, ...and What It Is Worth

tags: history, the-story-of-liberty

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#21

“True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year

tags: inspirational, love

1793 likes

#22

“...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Westmark

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#23

“Find what you want. I will find you.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Westmark

tags: bonds, faith

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#24

“I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Westmark

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#25

“A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.”
― Jonathan Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate

tags: bartimaeus, intelligence

323 likes

#26

“According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking.”
― Jonathan Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate

tags: amulet-of-samarkand, bartimaeus-trilogy, jonathan-stroud

467 likes

#27

“One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand

tags: amulet-of-samarkand, bartimaeus-trilogy, jonathan-stroud

385 likes

#28

“Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style."

"That is a footstool.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Golem's Eye

tags: humor

216 likes

#29

“You never really heard anything about Humpty when he was whole; only that he was broken, irreparable.”
― T.L. Hines

tags: the-unseen

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#30

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

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