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SaraHoliday · 09/06/2026 23:51

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."

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SnowFrogJelly · 10/06/2026 01:10

l‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’

— The Tempest

tobee · 10/06/2026 00:39

Humankind cannot bear very much reality

pinkgown · 10/06/2026 00:37

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.

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SaraHoliday · 10/06/2026 00:32

"Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies"

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SaraHoliday · 10/06/2026 00:21

"God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another"

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SaraHoliday · 10/06/2026 00:16

"Listen to many, speak to a few"

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HelenaWilson · 10/06/2026 00:05

All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

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SaraHoliday · 10/06/2026 00:03

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape."

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HelenaWilson · 10/06/2026 00:02

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."

Polonius is usually presented as a comedy character, but his advice to Laertes is very sound. 'Neither a borrower nor a lender be....'

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SaraHoliday · 10/06/2026 00:00

"Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together..."

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SaraHoliday · 09/06/2026 23:57

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

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SaraHoliday · 09/06/2026 23:54

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

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