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Famous Quotations from Literature

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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”   show
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show Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers  
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show Robert Browning, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”  
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show Aesop, “The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”  
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show Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Old Ironsides”  
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“ ‘Bah,’ said Scrooge. ‘Humbug!’ ”   show
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Because I could not stop for Death, / He kindly stopped for me—”   show
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show J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone  
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“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! / The Jaws that bite, the claws that catch!”   show
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“But don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden.”   show
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“ ‘But he hasn’t got anything on,’ a little child said.”   show
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“But there is no joy in Mudville—Mighty Casey has struck out.”   show
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show Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha  
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“Call me Ishmael.”   show
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show Louisa May Alcott, Little Women  
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show Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland  
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show James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan  
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show Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin  
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“Fifteen men on a Dead Man’s Chest— / Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! / Drink and the devil had done for the rest— / Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”   show
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“ ‘God bless us every one!’ said Tiny Tim, the last of all.”   show
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“Good fences make good neighbors.”   show
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show Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”  
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show Hans Christian Andersen, “The Ugly Duckling”  
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“I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.”   show
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“I am Heathcliff.”   show
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show Lyman Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz  
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show Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol  
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“I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created.”   show
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show Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg  
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“I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel.”   show
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“ ‘If it had grown up,’ she said to herself, ‘it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.’ ”   show
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“I’ll resk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.”   show
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show Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind  
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In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”   show
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“It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done.”   show
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show Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities  
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“Listen, my children, and you shall hear / Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, / On the Eighteenthof April, in Seventy-Five / Hardly a man is now alive / Who remembers that famous day and year.”   show
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“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”   show
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show Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland  
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show Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit  
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show Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Paul Revere’s Ride”  
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“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, / One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”   show
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“Poems are made by fools like me, / But only God can make a tree.”   show
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“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”   show
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“The clever men at Oxford / Know all that there is to be knowed. / But they none of them know one half as much / As intelligent Mr. Toad!”   show
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“The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.”   show
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“This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks / . . . / Stand like Druids of old.”   show
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“To be, or not to be: that is the question.”   show
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show Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  
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show Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”  
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