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#1

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

tags: books, library

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#2

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

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#3

“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

tags: will-herondale

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#3

“With God on your side, what does luck matter?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: will, will-herondale, william-herondale

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#4

“I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: excited-by-books

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#5

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

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#6

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: adulthood, success, value

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#7

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

tags: misattributed-einstein

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#8

“You never fail until you stop trying.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational

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#9

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
― Albert Einstein

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#10

“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”
― Albert Einstein

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#11

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom

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#12

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom

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#13

“We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
― Albert Einstein

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#14

“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.”
― Albert Einstein

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#15

“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
― Philip Roth

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#16

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
― Ovid, Heroides

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#17

“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
― Edward Albee

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#18

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

tags: books, humor

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#19

“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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#20

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

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#21

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased

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#22

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics

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#23

“Humor is reason gone mad.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: humor, reason

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#24

“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.”
― Groucho Marx

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#25

“I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: classic-insult

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#26

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
― Ernest Benn

tags: misattributed-groucho-marx, politics, problems

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#27

“I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.”
― Groucho Marx

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#28

“I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: absurd, gibe, insult

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#29

“He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: gibe, insult

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