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“No legacy is so rich as honesty.” William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
“Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“It doesn't matter what you do . . . so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“I should sin to think but nobly of my grandmother: good wombs have borne bad sons.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all some day. I think I shall write books,...” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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