Lewis Carroll Quotes
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Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
Sophocles
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Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.
Joanne Rowling
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It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.
Sarah Hughes
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There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.
Homer
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
Henrik Ibsen
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...at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it. we are ready to move on, to go beyond the self, beyond even its most intimate union with God, and this is where we enter yet another new life- a life best categorized, perhaps, as a life without a self.
Bernadette Roberts
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I was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes I wonder if I do that too much with roles I play, because if I'm absolutely truthful, I quite like being the best friend, or the supporting role, and actually I ought to gear-change and make myself the leading role.
Celia Imrie
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Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.
Lewis Carroll
