And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days. ― Dylan Thomas

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured. "Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back. ― Cassandra Clare

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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.― Groucho Marx

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This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best. Night, sleep, and the stars. -- Walt Whitman

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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women. ― Booker T. Washington

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Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good. ― Maya Angelou

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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ― John Glenn

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.― Mark Twain

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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

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