"I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book."

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“It is a business doing pleasure with you.”

“A likely story — and probably true.”

“I don't have a photograph. I'd give you my footprints, but they're upstairs in my socks.”

“Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!”

“I got $25 from Reader's Digest last week for something I never said. I get credit all the time for things I never said. You know that line in You Bet Your Life? The guy says he has seventeen kids and I say: "I smoke a cigar, but I take it out of my mouth occasionally"? I never said that.”

“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.”

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— Lois McMaster Bujold

Literature1949

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"The use of science in the practice of virtue, is considerable: the man who knows the beauty of virtue will follow it, however possible. Knowing the evil of wrong, he will avoid it, however possible. H…"

— Imam Ibn Hazm (R.A.)

Philosophy994–1064

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"Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail …"

— Alexandre Dumas

Literature1795–1870

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"We may take advantage of this pause in the narrative to make certain statements. Orlando had become a woman — there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had b…"

— Virginia Woolf

Literature1882–1941

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