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#1

“About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.”
― Josh Billings, Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings

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#2

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

tags: books, library

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#3

“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

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#4

“Lots of people talk to animals...Not very many listen though...that's the problem.”
― A.A. Milne

tags: animals, listen, talk

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#5

“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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#6

“And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

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#7

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

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#8

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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#9

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

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#10

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship, inspirational

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#11

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

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#12

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#13

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom

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#14

“There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul.”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems

tags: literature, poetry, words

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#15

“Keep a spur handy.”
― Meg Mims, Double Crossing

tags: 1869, action, adventure, historical, rr, suspense, texan, transcontinental, western

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#16

“Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.”
― F.W. Dupee

tags: perseverance, progress

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#17

“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
― A.A. Milne

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#19

“I can imagine few things more delightful than to be invited there for Ascot. One sees
the racing in the most comfortable way, meets all one’s friends (and enemies), makes
– or loses – a little money, and all without fatigue or bother.” --Princess Daisy Ples”
― D.E. Ireland

tags: ascot

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#20

“If I am asked to give advice to those who are inclined to spend their time and their money on the Turf I should give them the advice 'Punch' gave to those about to marry
– don’t.” --5th Earl of Roseberry

The Fast Set: The World of Edwardian Racing by George Plumptre, 1985.”
― D.E. Ireland

tags: ascot, horse-racing

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#21

“It’s a human need to be told stories. The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.”
― Alan Rickman

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#22

“If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.”
― Alan Rickman, not a book [DVD]

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#23

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: adventuring, death, time

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