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It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.

—Thomas Babington Macaulay

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What does 'I love you' even mean? It's weird how different three words can feel. I mean, I've said it before but it's never felt so… big, you know? I'm not sure it meant the same thing then. Like, I was too young to get it.

—Christina Lauren in Beautiful Stranger

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Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn't involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.

—Lev Grossman in The Magician King

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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

—George Burns

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My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

—Rita Rudner

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The more things change, the more they are the same.

—Alphonse Karr

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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

—Nicolas Chamfort

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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

—Moses Hadas

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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

—Jacques Yves Cousteau

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Silence is the mother of truth.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

—Victor Hugo

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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

—Sitting Bull

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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

—Douglas Adams

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