June 2010
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“Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.”
– Winston Churchill (via churchillian) (via lostsplendor)
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“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via julie911) (via quote-book)
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“Had he but turned back then, and looked out once more on to the rose-lit garden,...”
– The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Emmuska Orczy (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Love this book. My favorite (non HP) series is actually loosely based off of the world created by it.
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The Gruesome Origins of 5 Popular Fairy Tales →
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Little Red Riding Hood Most modern versions of fairy tales come from two sources: The Grimm Brothers from Germany, and Frenchman Charles Perrault, the collector of the “Mother Goose” tales. The big change they made to this one was the ending. That woodsman showing up seemed a little like a third act re-write of a...
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“To be, or not to be—that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to...”
– Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” (via quote-book)
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“Dream no small dreams, for they have no power to move the hearts of men”
– Thoreau (via melpeezy)
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“This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via double-vee) (via fuckyeahthoreau)
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“Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
Are a substantial world,...”
– William Wordsworth (via knockturn) (via fairphantom)