My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

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I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.

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"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. ― Oscar Wilde

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It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Brevity is the soul of wit

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Books may well be the only true magic.

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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. ― George Bernard Shaw

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