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  • Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  • Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  • Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.
        Mary Higgins Clark   Best?
  • Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.
        Charles Dickens   Best?
  • I have plentyof common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
        Bill Watterson   Best?
  • It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
        Frank Herbert   Best?
  • I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
        Maya Angelou   Best?
  • A dog will look up on you; a cat will look down on you; however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
        David Brink   Best?
  • The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • Don't hold on too long, but don't let go to soon. Find a balance.
        Morrie Schwartz   Best?
  • All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.
        Alexander Penney   Best?
  • Common sense is not so common.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often the should appear.
        Lemony Snicket   Best?
  • When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
        Socrates   Best?
  • Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
        Emily Dickinson   Best?
  • [Y]ou sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  • Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works...
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Woe be to him that reads but one book.
        Adrienne Gusoff   Best?
  • He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • ...Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream mother-goose, Alice-and- Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?
        Sylvia Plath   Best?
  • Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.
        Aristotle   Best?
  • Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
        Aesop   Best?
  • This poem will never reach its destination.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once.
        Unknown   Best?
  • There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
        Johann K. Lavater   Best?
  • In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • When you reach the thing you were desiring, if it doesn't satisfy you, it was not what you were desiring.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • Believing where we cannot prove.
        Alfred, Lord Tennyson   Best?
  • If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book.
        Lemony Snicket   Best?
  • Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
        Muhammad Ali   Best?

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