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    Wilkie Collins
    “The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
    ― Wilkie Collins, Armadale
    tags: books
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: conscience, politics, right
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    August Strindberg
    “Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
    ― August Strindberg, Miss Julie
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    Edith Wharton
    “Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
    ― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
    tags: carpe-diem, day, daytime, window
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    Brian Selznick
    “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
    ― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
    tags: dreamers, magic, mermaids, travel, wizard
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    Wu Cheng'en
    “Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.”
    ― Wu Cheng'en, Monkey: A Journey to the West
    tags: inspirational, wisdom
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    Lewis Carroll
    “And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said Alice. "Well then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: alice, cats, cheshire-cat, madness
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?”

    The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?”

    “I don’t know,” Alice answered.

    “Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
    tags: alice, alice-in-wonderland, cheshire-cat, lewis-carroll
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    Lewis Carroll
    “I don't like the looks of it,' said the King: 'however, it may kis my hand, if it likes.'
    'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, cheshire-cat, king
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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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 Austen
    “One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
    tags: battle-of-the-sexes, life
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    Jane Austen
    “There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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    Emily Dickinson
    “While I was fearing it, it came,
       But came with less of fear,
    Because that fearing it so long
       Had almost made it dear.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms. Pole)”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
    tags: emergencies, humor, lace, wardrobe
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    Diane Setterfield
    “There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.”
    ― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River
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    Georgia Scott
    “Love is not a weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
    ― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me
    tags: brave-hearts, commitment, love
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    Madeline Martin
    “There might be loss, and sometimes there may be fear, but there was also courage to face such challenges. For in a world such as theirs, with people of spirit and love, and with so many different tales of strength and victory to inspire, there would always be hope.”
    ― Madeline Martin, The Last Bookshop in London
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    Madeline Martin
    “I do enjoy reading to myself,” Olivia said. “It’s like my brain drinking in something good, like warm chocolate milk.”
    ― Madeline Martin, The Booklover's Library
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