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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

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• Humor

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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• Love

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

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• Inspirational

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

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• Humor

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

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• Education

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

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• Humor

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

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• Inspirational

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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• Writing

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

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• Life

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

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• Hope

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

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• Books

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

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• Inspirational

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

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• Humor