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This is the quote that got me to get off my ass and go back to school. Too bad Merlin didn't condone Pilates, I could use a nudge today. (I'm going, I'm going!)

“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
— T.H. White, The Once and Future King

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When you see this in a friend's journal, quote Shakespeare!

I will not change my horse with any that treads but on four pasterns. Look, ha! He bounds from the earth as if his entrails were hairs: the flying steed, the Pegasus, with nostrils of fire! When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

--The Life of King Henry the Fifth

Act III. Scene VII. (French lines translated)