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    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: cynicism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor-work
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    Jane Austen
    “Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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    Jane Austen
    “If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: boasting, conceit, ironic
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: caring, inspirational, love, roses, time
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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    Ian McEwan
    “I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth
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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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    William Shakespeare
    “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
    tags: birthday, happiness, laughter, shakespeare
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin
    tags: inspirational, political
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    Hugh Prather
    “If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write”
    ― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
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