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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

—Stephen Leacock

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One forgives to the degree that one loves.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There were so many people in the world who wasted their aliveness, who hung back when they should reach out, who sat out when they should join in, who hung on when they should let go.

—Jessie Evans in Betting on You

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We both know life is short. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.

—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

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We've grown and changed, screwed up, but at the beginning of each summer, we found each other again. Or maybe we never really lost each other.

—Nyrae Dawn in Four Summers

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I love the idea of the big life—the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where stuff happens, where people take action. The opposite of the life where the girl can't even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren't even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.

—E. Lockhart in Fly on the Wall

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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

—George Washington

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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

—Walter Gilbert

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I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

—Robert Bridges

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Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

—Norman McLaren

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The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

—Alfred Stieglitz

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Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

—Helen Rowland

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I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

—Jean Cocteau

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Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

—Douglas William Jerrold

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