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General concerns for a Monday…
“There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?’”
“The mood will pass, sir.”
P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
#ClassicLitMonday 📖#Art 🎨 by Edgar Torné, DeviantArt
#books #bookquotes #literature #pgwodehouse #jeevesandwooster
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“If you want to make a stand, help others make a stand, and if you want to reach your goal, help others reach their goal. Consider yourself and treat others accordingly: this is the method of Humanity.”
The Analects, Confucius
#ClassicLitMonday 📖#Art 🎨 by Gary Frank
#confucius #philosophy #superman #manofsteel #book #bookquote #humanity #empathy #comics #garyfrank #theanalects
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“All you need are these: certainty of judgement in the present moment: action for the common good in the present moment; and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way.”
Marcus Aurelius, Mediations
#ClassicLitMonday 📖🙏☀️😊
#philosophy #marcusaurelius #literature #ireland #beach #coast #photography
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“Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.”
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
#ClassicLitMonday 📖Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe in Howard Hawks 1946 film noir 🎞️📽️
#TheBigSleep #ClassicLitMonday #literature #HumphreyBogart #HowardHawks #FilmNoir #PhilipMarlowe #book #books #BookQuote
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“In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes) which nature cannot repair.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
#ClassicLitMonday 📖#forest #nature #woods #river #trees #ralphwaldoemerson #book #literature
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“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.”
The Hound of The Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#ClassicLitMonday 📖May 2023 bring good things, the game is afoot!
#SherlockHolmes DoctorWatson #BasilRathbone #NigelBruce #TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles #book #books #literature #SirArthurConanDoyle
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Post Christmas feeling and look and I don’t even drink! 😳😆
“It wasn't the wine,' murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. 'It was the salmon.' (Somehow or other, it never is the wine, in these cases.)”
The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
#ClassicLitMonday 📖Art 🎨 by Leo Viti
#CharlesDickens #ThePickwickPapers #book #books #literature #Christmas #BoxingDay
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“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 📖🎄
#ClassicLitMondayArt 🎨 by Paul Mellender
#Scrooge #CharlesDickens #Literature #book #books #bookquotes
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"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
R. W. Emerson, Society and Solitude
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“People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an invalid who has suffered worse and been cut off from life much more . . . and they've managed to lead happy contented lives. It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.”
Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced
That last line says it all 😊
#MissMarple #AgathaChristie #book #books #BookQuotes #MurderMystery #Literature #MargaretRutherford
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"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
L. Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
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#ClassicLitMonday #BlackSails
Come my friends.
´Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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“…And the good heart, it is in the end worth all the little grey cells. Yes, yes, I who speak to you am in danger of forgetting that sometimes.”
Poirot Investigates ‘The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb’ by Agatha Christie.
Art 🎨 by BlackDeadlySpade
#HerculePoirot #AgathaChristie #Poirot #Book #Books #BookQuote #detective
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"Seeing into darkness is clarity.
Knowing how to yield is strength.
Use your own light
and return to the source of light.
This is called practicing eternity."Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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“I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.”
Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
#ClassicLitMonday 📖..fitting as we plot some social media exits for new horizons ⛵️.
Art 🎨 by Amir Salehi
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"I myself am a question which is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise I am dependent upon the world’s answer.”
C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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