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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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  • #6
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
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  • #10
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
    Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
    Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
    Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
    Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
    Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
    Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: history
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “In times of war, the law falls silent.

    Silent enim leges inter arma”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: freedom, human-rights, law, war
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”
    ― Cicero
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: candor, honesty, truth-telling
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: friendship
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: gratitude
    693 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Yasalar Üzerine
    tags: commandments, essential, justice, law, reason, society
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: history, latin
    502 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: cicero, learning, roman, school, study
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Dum Spiro, spero”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: fame, immortality, inspirational
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: books
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  • #23
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “While there's life, there's hope.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: hope, life
    348 likes

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  • #24
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippics
    tags: dead, eternity, living, memory
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  • #25
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: eyes, face, interpreter, mind, picture
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Senectute, De Amicitia
    tags: friends, friendship, reliability, trust
    270 likes

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  • #28
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
    51491 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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  • #30
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
    27851 likes



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