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| #6481 | | I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I
will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all
Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they
teach. Oh, tell me that I may sponge away the writing on this stone!
-- Charles Dickens
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| #6482 | | "I wonder", he said to himself, "what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I
know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must
be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people
I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures and battles."
-- Bastian B. Bux
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| #6483 | | I'll burn my books.
-- Christopher Marlowe
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| #6484 | | I've touch'd the highest point of all my greatness;
And from that full meridian of my glory
I haste now to my setting. I shall fall,
Like a bright exhalation in the evening
And no man see me more.
-- Shakespeare
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| #6485 | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would
be a merrier world.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien
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| #6486 | | If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
in reading it at all.
-- Oscar Wilde
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| #6487 | | If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.
-- Ernest Hemingway
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| #6488 | | If you laid all of our laws end to end, there would be no end.
-- Mark Twain
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| #6489 | | If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.
This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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| #6490 | | If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
-- Mark Twain
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