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“That's the trouble with thoughtlessness; it never remembers other people.”
― Thornton W. Burgess

“What's in a name? Sometimes a lot of real work.”
― Thornton W. Burgess

“You don't know what you are talking about, and no one sounds so silly as one who tries to talk about something he knows nothing about.”
― Thornton W. Burgess, The Burgess Bird Book for Children: Illustrated

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Too much information will make your brain choke.”
― Bryan Davis, Dragons in Our Midst: The Complete Series

“If a man has to ask for your trust, it's a sure sign that you should not give it. Trust should be earned inherently, without any verbal demands. Trust is knowing a man's character, knowing truth, and relying on that character and truth even when the odds seem against you.”
― Anne Elisabeth Stengl, Heartless

“I'll never tell you to stop loving. You see, I believe in hopeless love. Oh yes. I believe in it with all my heart, though you may discount the heart of an old nanny like me. For real love brings pain. Real love means sacrifices and hurts and all the thousand shocks of life. But it also means beauty, true beauty.”
― Anne Elisabeth Stengl, Moonblood

“I could try to care, but I ain't sure it's worth the bother.”
― Anne Elisabeth Stengl, Veiled Rose

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“I'm delicate and refined!"
"I've seen you pick a wedgie in public.”
― Jenny B. Jones, In Between

“Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby.”
― Evanescence

“Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!