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Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

—Halifax

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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

—Walter Scott

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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

—William Shakespeare

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However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

—Ivan Turgenev

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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

—Lewis Grizzard

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Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

—Erma Bombeck

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Children are the keys of paradise.

—Eric Hoffer

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You can go through life and make new friends every year — every month practically — but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years.

—Alexander McCall Smith in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.

—Rainbow Rowell in Eleanor & Park

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You can't do anything about the past, it's done and can't be mended. But the future is different, if you just think what you really want and reach out and take it.

—Lesley Pearse in Trust Me

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I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes.

—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

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Then the night you've been waiting for comes and suddenly your dream isn't a dream anymore, it's a reality. It's all around you like something you always knew would happen.

—Margaret Willey in Facing The Music

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As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

—John Green in Paper Towns

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I've changed since I've known you. Not because you made me into someone else—but because you showed me a path I'd never paid attention to, and I chose to follow it.

—Tammara Webber in Good For You

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