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I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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They can conquer who believe they can.: Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
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I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to.: Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.: Frederick William Robertson
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992
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One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.: Franklin P. Jones
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"
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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.: Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)
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It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, Is College Worth It?, 08-21-12
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)
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Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.: Neil Diamond (1941 - ), Cracklin' Rose
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
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Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07
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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.: Farrah Gray
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