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| That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations |  |
| Old habit of mind is one of the toughest things to get away from in the world. It transmits itself like physical form and feature . . . | Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |  |
| . . . you can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. | Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |  |
| "You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action." | W. Somerset Maugham | Of Human Bondage |  |
| All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations |  |
| . . . nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose . . . | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |  |
| The right time is ANY time that one is still so lucky as to have. | Henry James | The Ambassadors |  |
| Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. | James Joyce | Ulysses |  |
| It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . . | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World |  |
| "I'm not a bit changed--not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real ME--back here--is just the same." | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables |  |