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- Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
- E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970), "A Room with a View"
- It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
- One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.
- George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)
- The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.
- Edward M. Kennedy (1932 - ), Democratic National Convention, 1980
- When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans.
- Jean Chretien, (Canadian Prime Minister) in an interview in 2003
- Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), From a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849).
- The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, Chapter 1: Economy
- What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve:
The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. - Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
- [Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
- Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
- A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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