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• I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Littles, Sometimes

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• Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.

  Groucho Marx

  Eight, Tables, Alarms

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• You just gotta tell her, man,’ I said. ‘You just gotta say, “Angela, I really like you, but there’s something you need to know: when we go to my house and hook up, we’ll be watched by the twenty-four hundred eyes of twelve hundred black Santas.

  John Green

  Eye, Men, House

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.20, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?

  Daniel Handler

  Twenties, World, Diners

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• Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, Mad, Female

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.363

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• Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Two, Free Will

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• I make lots of mistakes. I try hard not to make the same mistake more than three or four times.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mistake, Trying, Three

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions.

  Anne Lamott

  Song, Drama, Life Is Like

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.181, Anchor

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• A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Funny Valentines Day, Women

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• Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.

  James Thurber

  Party, Two, Three

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.355, Library of America

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• And he was like "The sedative in the blood, blah, blah, four hours, blah, blah, nerdspeak, geektalk -" -Abby

  Christopher Moore

  Blood, Abby, Hours

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• Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Taken, Dark, Numbers

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Hurt, Angel, Twenties

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.28, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• What’s your name?' she asked, and surprised herself. But for some reason, she wanted to know. Dean’s brother—he hadn’t been just some nameless Bad Guy Number Four. This vampire wasn’t,either. He had a name, a history, maybe even people who cared what happened to him. My name is none of your business,' he said, and continued to stare out the window, even though there was nothing but blurry brick out there. Can I call you None for short?

  Rachel Caine

  Brother, Numbers, Names

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Carpe Corpus: The Morganville Vampires”, p.83, Penguin

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• They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Ocean, People, Earth

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• Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems to me that the made-up things are a good deal better than the real ones. And if this black pits of a kingdom is the best you can make, then it's a poor world. And we four can make a dream world to lick your real one hollow.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Stars, Real

  "The Silver Chair". TV Series, (1990 - ).

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• So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense. -Dr. Watson, The Sign of the Four

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thinking, Law, Energy

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Sign of the Four”, p.51, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now!

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Rocks, Years, Two

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.235, Macmillan

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• Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

  Brenda Ueland

  Love You, Talking, Three

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• Hatori: "SHIGURE... I WILL TELL EVERYONE IN THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT YOU, STARTING FROM WHEN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS OLD..." Shigure: "Sorry, Tohru-kun. My lips are sealed!

  Natsuki Takaya

  Sorry, Years, Lips

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• Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.

  Sheri Holman

  Years, Election, Disillusionment

  Sheri Holman (2007). “The Mammoth Cheese”, p.455, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Regret, Children, Taken

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.152, Applewood Books

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• There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads taller than Mr. Croup; second, Mr. Croup has eyes of a faded china blue, while Mr. Vandemar's eyes are brown; third, while Mr. Vandemar fashioned the rings he wears on his right hand out of the skulls of four ravens, Mr. Croup has no obvious jewelery; fourth, Mr. Croup likes words, while Mr. Vandemar is always hungry. Also, they look nothing at all alike.

  Neil Gaiman

  Eye, Simple, Blue

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Neverwhere: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• I went to the four levers. None of them were marked. There was only one way to figure out which one was the right one. I had to call upon all my Traveler experience and special powers to figure it out. It's called...Eenie, meenie, miney...mo!" -Bobby Pendragon

  D. J. MacHale

  Special, Levers, Way

  D.J. MacHale (2007). “The Lost City of Faar”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.

  Diablo Cody

  Asylums, Lasts, Privilege

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