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Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!

— Dr. Seuss
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It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

— J.K. Rowling
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When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.

— John Green
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Give her hell from us, Peeves.

— J.K. Rowling
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You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It could happen," Clary said, "You know, theoretically.""Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things," Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, "are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

— Cassandra Clare
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Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.

— Cassandra Clare
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

— William Arthur Ward
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These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triump die, like fire and powderWhich, as they kiss, consume

— William Shakespeare
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What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?""I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you.""Why?""Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?

— Rick Riordan
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

— Mark Twain
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It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

— J.K. Rowling
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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

— A.A. Milne
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I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

— L. M. Montgomery
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All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

— Lemony Snicket
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I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.

— Suzanne Collins
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World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.