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- I have never cared much for fish - it floats in the belly as much as in the pond.
- Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
- If you're servant enough, you can shrink into the shadows, even in the bright morning sun and even if you're large enough to often block it.
- Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
- There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.
- Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
- There should be fireworks, at least, when a dream dies.
- Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
- Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc.1
- Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VI, Part III, Act III, sc. 1
- Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), All's Well that Ends Well, Act I, sc. 2
- Crabbed age and youth cannot live together.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Passionate Pilgrim
- The old folk, time's doting chronicles.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry IV, Part II, Act IV, sc. 4
- I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act I, sc. 7
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