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“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
― Aristotle

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
― Robert Frost

“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”
― William Blake

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”
― Sholem Aleichem

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
― Laurence J. Peter

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.”
― William Penn

“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”
― jim morrison

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”
― E.E. Cummings

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”
― e. e. cummings

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“As far as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
― Jim Butcher

“Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.”
― Wayne W. Dyer, The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way

“And happiness is always louder than sadness.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed (Albert Einstein)”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”
― Oscar Wilde

“O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion
That you are changing sadly your dominion
I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased,
For men have none at all, or bad at least;
And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many
The "good old times" were far the worst of any,
Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle
Yet still I think these worst a little.

I've been a thinking -isn't that the phrase?-
I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways -
I've been a thinking, whether it were best
To Take things seriously, Or all in jest”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Poetry, Tales and Selected Essays

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa