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It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.: Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
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Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.: Lorraine Anderson
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The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary.: Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 02-01-09
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All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986
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We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.: Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Truth is what stands the test of experience.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.: Kathe Kollwitz, O Magazine, September 2002
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Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.: David Russell, I Heart Huckabee's
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.: Catherine de Hueck
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.: Judge Gideon J. Tucker