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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Agostinho da Silva
    “I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
    ― Agostinho da Silva
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    Stephen Fry
    “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: books, e-readers, kindle, reading
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good. Books are better.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
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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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    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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    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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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
    tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea
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    Henry James
    “There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”
    ― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
    tags: tea
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    William Ewart Gladstone
    “If you are cold, tea will warm you;
    if you are too heated, it will cool you;
    If you are depressed, it will cheer you;
    If you are excited, it will calm you.”
    ― William Ewart Gladstone
    tags: tea
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Once you have accepted your flaws, No one can use them against you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: game-of-thrones, lannister, tyrion
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    George R.R. Martin
    “I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: tyrion-lannister
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  • #14
    Douglas Adams
    “A cup of tea would restore my normality."

    [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]”
    ― Douglas Adams
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    Bill Watterson
    “Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
    tags: books, comfort, rain, reading, tea
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    Sydney Smith
    “Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.”
    ― Sydney Smith, A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith; 2 volume set
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    Kakuzō Okakura
    “Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.”
    ― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea
    tags: tea
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
    tags: confidence
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspiration, strength, tomorrow
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  • #28
    “Move on...holding on to any one experience will limit you”
    ― Samarpan, Tiya: A Parrot's Journey Home
    tags: inspirational, life-and-living
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  • #29
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
    tags: love, pain, relationships, self
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  • #30
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
    109288 likes



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