"Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses."
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"There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money."
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"Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop."
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"Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint."
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""Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful."
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"... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me."
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"My sorrow is my castle."
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"I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.'"
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"This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get to be tales," Amatus said, "but since ours is not yet told, we cannot count on it. There were a hundred dead princes on the thorns outside Sleeping Beauty's castle, and I'm sure many of them were splendid fellows."
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"A man's head is his castle."
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"Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?"
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"This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle."
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"You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table."
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"And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a dark wood not sure how to proceed. Which way is the right way?"
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"If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat."
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"Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles."
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"This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs."
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"High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge."
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"And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same."
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"Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around."
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