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“That Santa isn’t your parents. It isn’t any one person. It’s an idea, a belief in something more. It’s joy and hope. And love. It’s karma and believing in the greater good. It’s doing things for others because you want to and not out of
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“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
― Animal Dreams
― Animal Dreams
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
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