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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #2
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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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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  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife
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  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom
    6226 likes

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  • #6
    Jane Austen
    “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: classics
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  • #7
    Patricia C. Wrede
    “Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.”
    ― Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing with Dragons
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  • #8
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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  • #10
    J.K. Rowling
    “Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: wit
    10818 likes

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  • #11
    Alex Flinn
    “those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.”
    ― Alex Flinn, Beastly
    tags: happiness
    575 likes

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  • #12
    Elizabeth Aston
    “Sense is apt to fly out of the window when a girl falls in love.”
    ― Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters
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  • #13
    Elizabeth Aston
    “Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.”
    ― Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters
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  • #14
    “Good food isn't just about the taste.

    It's about where and with whom you eat it.”
    ― Natsumi Ando, Kitchen Princess, Vol. 03
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  • #15
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    “Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
    ― Mario Vargas Llosa
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  • #16
    “I don't feel like losing to a fool.”
    ― Tachibana Higuchi
    tags: hotaru
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  • #17
    “Aren't we all a bunch of weirdos?”
    ― Kaori Naruse, Pretear
    tags: fantasy, humor, manga
    44 likes

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  • #18
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell
    tags: expectation, hope, life
    5635 likes

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  • #19
    Audre Lorde
    “If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
    ― Audre Lorde
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  • #20
    Robin McKinley
    “The story is always better than your ability to write it.”
    ― Robin McKinley
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  • #21
    Robin McKinley
    “But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.”
    ― Robin McKinley, Dragonhaven
    tags: authorial-license, storytelling, truth
    115 likes

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  • #22
    Robin McKinley
    “Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead.”
    ― Robin McKinley, Rose Daughter
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  • #23
    Robin McKinley
    “Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.”
    ― Robin McKinley
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  • #24
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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  • #25
    L.M. Montgomery
    “It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
    tags: happiness
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  • #26
    Sophocles
    “One word
    Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
    That word is love.”
    ― Sophocles
    tags: love, pain
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  • #27
    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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  • #28
    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
    5398 likes

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  • #29
    Bertrand Russell
    “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: doubt, intelligent, problems, smart, stupid, world
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  • #30
    “War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
    ― Anonymous
    tags: misattributed-bernard-shaw, misattributed-bertrand-russell, war
    1547 likes



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