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L. Frank Baum Author
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"Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward."

Children Book Sweet
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Langston Hughes Poet, Novelist
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"Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why."

Sweet Liberty Everyday
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Larry Holmes Boxer
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"Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man."

Men Sweet Discipline
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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!"

Girl Nice Sweet
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Ovid Poet
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"And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]"

Mind Sweet Novelty
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Lauren Oliver Author
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"...and once at Hana's house, when we stole some blackberry liqueur from her parents' liquor cabinet and drank until the ceiling started spinning overhead. Hana was laughing and giggling, but I didn't like it, didn't like the sweet sick taste in my mouth or the way my thoughts seemed to break apart like a mist in the sun."

Laughing Sweet Sick
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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"Each time you take a mindful step you are back in the arms of Mother Earth and are reminded of your true sweet home in the here and now."

Home Mother Sweet
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Helen Keller Author, Activist
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"Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness."

Eye Sweet Fate
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Helen Keller Author, Activist
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"Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet."

Pain Sweet Pleasure
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Sweet

"Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee."

Heart Song Sweet
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George Sand Novelist, Memoirist
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"nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry."

Stars Nature Sweet
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Gustave Flaubert Novelist
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"He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its old illegible date, the bizarre and strange Gothic characters, the heavy gilding which loaded its drawings. It was its pages covered with dust — dust of which he breathed the sweet and tender perfume with delight."

Book Character Sweet
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain"

Earth Sweet Cake
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