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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Greater in battle
than the man who would conquer
a thousand-thousand men,
is he who would conquer
just one —
himself.
Better to conquer yourself
than others.
When you've trained yourself,
living in constant self-control,
neither a deva nor gandhabba,
nor a Mara banded with Brahmas,
could turn that triumph
back into defeat.”
― Buddha

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“She preferred keeping her mouth shut and appearing a fool to opening it and removing the doubt.”
― Joan Smith

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

“Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“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

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“I might as well just call you “Bridge to Terabithia” since you make children cry!”
― Zooey Deschanel

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Steampunk is...a joyous fantasy of the past, allowing us to revel in a nostalgia for what never was. It is a literary playground for adventure, spectacle, drama, escapism and exploration. But most of all it is fun!”
― George Mann

“Of all the evil I deem you capable. Therefore I want the good from you. Verily I have often laughed at weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”
― Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm

“Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.”
― Jenny Holzer

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

“Why were the other angels attacking you?"

"It's impolite to ask the victim of violence what they did to be attacked.”
― Susan Ee, Angelfall

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You know it’s going to be Mary the Maid, or someone like her, and there’s going to be two men and she will end up with the nice one, and there has to be misunderstandings, and they never do anything more than kiss and it’s absolutely guaranteed that, for example, an exciting civil war or an invasion by trolls or even a scene with any cooking in it is not going to happen. The best you can expect is a thunderstorm.”
― Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
― Virginia Woolf

“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“I-I’m not making advances,” she told him as she flattened herself against his chest. “You’re just an available s-source of heat.”

“So you say,” St. Vincent replied lazily, tucking the quilt more tightly around them both.

“However, during the past quarter hour you’ve been fondling parts of my anatomy that no one’s ever dared to touch before.”

“I v-very much doubt that.” She burrowed even further into the depths of his coat, and added in a muffled voice, “You’ve probably been h-handled more than a hamper at Fortnum and Mason.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Winter

“I’ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Winter