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• Harry!" said Fred, elbowing Percy out of the way and bowing deeply. "Simply splendid to see you, old boy-" "Marvelous," said George, pushing Fred aside and seizing Harry's hand in turn. "Absolutely spiffing." Percy scowled. "That's enough, now," said Mrs. Weasley. "Mum!" said Fred as though he'd only just spotted her and seizing her hand too. "How really corking to see you-

  J. K. Rowling

  Boys, Hands, Funny Harry Potter

  "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 8, 1999.

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• Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  People, Ifs, Uninterested

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• Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

  Sara Teasdale

  Life, Beautiful, Nature

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.

  Rob Sheffield

  Agony, Icons, Space

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.118, Penguin

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• Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

  James Cash Penney

  Business, Practice, Entrepreneur

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• Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.

  Freddie Mercury

  Queens, Years, Names

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• If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Humble, People, Would Be

  John Maynard Keynes (1952). “Essays in Persuasion”

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• I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Islamic, Kites, Sun

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• Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

  Henry Louis Gates

  War, Thinking, Civilization

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• Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

  Edna Ferber

  Cutting, Literature, Becoming

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• Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad poets who made a living by parasitizing him, wrote the splendid line, 'was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

  Richard Dawkins

  Dog, Book, Two

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• All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Believe, Writing

  1956 On his generation of writers. Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Family, Book, Food

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.64, Algora Publishing

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• After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Believe, Home, Simple

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.369, e-artnow

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• Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so splendid Are never really won.

  Sara Teasdale

  Life, Brave, Victory

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Light, Feelings

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.10, Vintage

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• But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves that the opposite was true - that the world had once been a splendid, orderly place...and that everything had been slowly, relentlessly falling apart ever since.

  Neal Stephenson

  Fall, Opposites, People

  "Quicksilver". Book by Neal Stephenson, September 23, 2003.

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• How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to heaven at all!

  Thomas Hardy

  Destiny, Heaven, Done

  Thomas Hardy (2006). “Return of the Native: Easyread Edition”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.

  Victor Hugo

  Risk, Fascination, World

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as long as the world revolves, making others laugh is the most splendid of activities.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Art, Laughter, Long

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• Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons. Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry or in high cold towers asking questions of the stars. And so the kingdom of Gondor sank into ruin, the line of kings failed, the white tree withered and the rule of Gondor was given over to lesser men.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Stars, Son

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• These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Heartbreak, Morning, Flower

  "A las flores". Poem by Pedro Calderon de la Barca,

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• …what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Dream, Pain, People

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.665, ShandonPress

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• For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  White, Mirages, Cry

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.

  Robertson Davies

  Men, Jewels, Speech

  "Colombia's Quotations Add Wit to Your Work" by Melissa J. Perenson. PC Mag, March 15, 1994.

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