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“Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and hope.”
― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

“I haven’t had this much fun since the pigs ate my little brother.”
― Juliette Harper, You Can't Get Blood Out of Shag Carpet

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
― Albert Einstein

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
― Ferris Bueller

“You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.”
― Monty Python

“Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!

(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”
― Russell T. Davies

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

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
― Maya Angelou

“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”
― Miles Kington

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
― T.S. Eliot

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”
― Harold Howe

“Border Services and the CBSA responded to a call reporting a man who had jumped a farmer’s fence into Canada with a goose. It has been reported that Mr. Voss was allegedly trying to release the goose, a pet named Tom Hanks, back into Canada, where he felt it belonged because he believed the goose was sad and depressed living in the U.S.”
― Holly Kennedy, The Sideways Life of Denny Voss

“there are no rules about friends. Like, I’m pretty sure you can have as many as you want? Young or old, tall or short, fat or skinny—you just have to be careful to pick good ones, which are people who have the same kind of heart you do. That’s the most important thing.”
― Holly Kennedy, The Sideways Life of Denny Voss

“love can be confusing because when someone loves you, they don’t always say the words out loud.”
― Holly Kennedy, The Sideways Life of Denny Voss