February 2012
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I exist as I am, that is enough, if no other in the world be aware I sit...
– Walt Whitman
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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women—and so little...
– John Barrymore
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Every time a child says ‘‘I don’t believe in fairies’’ there is a fairy...
– James M. Barrie
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Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees...
– Max Ehrmann
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Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I’ve been using it for...
– Tallulah Bankhead
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Above all things, good policy is to be used that the treasure and moneys in a...
– Francis Bacon
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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man...
– Francis Bacon
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The first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman.
– Nancy Astor
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an...
– Matthew Arnold
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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years...
– Louis Aragon
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It’s in the reach of my arms,
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The...
– Maya Angelou: Phenomenal Woman, 1978
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I held her hand in mine, and felt a mad occult delight shoot through my blood.
– Knut Hamsun
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Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves...
– Nikola Tesla
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I have yet to see any problem, however compli-cated, which, when you looked at...
– Poul Anderson
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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds...
– Oscar Ameringer
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Written laws are like spiders’ webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and...
– Anacharsis: Scythian prince, Sixth cent. B.C., Quoted in Plutarch, Parallel Lives
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