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I hope everyone is having a good week so far. I have had a busy day teaching today and I am really looking forward to my day off tomorrow.
My chosen quote this week is by my favourite author, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
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My chosen quote this week is by one of my favourites, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
Oscar Wilde
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Today I am going around the Harry Potter Studio Tour for my husbands birthday so I have decided to go for a quote from Albus Dumbledore.
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
Albus Dumbledore
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Happy Wednesday!
My chosen quote for this week is by the American author, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) who was known by his pen name Mark Twain.
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Mark Twain
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My chosen quote for this week is by one of my favourites, Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin (1705/1706-1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the first United States Postmaster General.
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin
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My chosen quote for this week is by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950).
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw
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I hope everyone is having a good week so far. I have been busy working on a new bookish project which I will be sharing with everyone soon.
My chosen quote this week is by one of my favourites, Aristotle.
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
Aristotle
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Happy Wednesday! I hope everyone is having a good week so far.
My chosen quote this week is by the Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
Oscar Wilde
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My chosen quote for today is by Helen Keller (1880-1968).
At nineteen months of age Keller became deaf and blind but with aid of her teacher and family she learned to read, write and speak. At the age of twenty-four, she became the first deaf and blind person to receive a bachelor’s degree. Keller wrote a dozen books and many articles, she was also a world renowned public speaker, activist and advocate for people with disabilities.
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller
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During the recent heat wave that we have been going through I have been constantly thinking of this quote by Jane Austen so I thought I would share it this week.
“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”
Jane Austen
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