Photo by Eva Elijas on Pexels.com It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit or There and Back Again (1937)
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Photo by Tim Douglas on Pexels.com "Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going…
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Photo by Isabella Mendes on Pexels.com Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924)
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Photo by Markus Winkler on Pexels.com Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924)
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Photo by Markus Spiske on Pexels.com I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924)
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Photo by Giallo on Pexels.com Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually. E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924)
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Photo by Suzy Hazelwood on Pexels.com To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling,…
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Photo by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels.com We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide…
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Photo by Adrianna Calvo on Pexels.com ...gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal...Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickelby (1838-39)
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Photo by Julia Volk on Pexels.com When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickelby (1838-39)
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