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Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade? ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#wisdom #work #wisdom

No man is poor who has a Godly mother. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#mother #wisdom #wisdom

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#wisdom #wisdom

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#wisdom #wisdom

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #wisdom #wisdom

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#advertising #anxiety #advertising

The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#journalism #advertising

...there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal. ↗

— John Green

#hazel #john-green #protagonist #the-fault-in-our-stars #advertising

That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan. "It fits a tuba, three suitcases, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly." "That's just what they used to say in the ads," I said... ↗

— Michael Chabon

#dead-dogs #garment-bags #suitcases #trunk-space #tubas

We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-lightwood #mortal-instruments #shadowhunters #simon-lewis #work