One is no number, mayds are nothing then, Without the sweet societie of men....
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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest,
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All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
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You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
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That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.
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I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned
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Come live with me, and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove.
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Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position
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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain
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To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
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Things that are not at all, are never lost.
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We view the recent Yahoo! sell-off as overdone. We believe anyone investing in Yahoo! on the belief that the Internet represents a good advertising medium is missing the story.
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I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
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Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs
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The family is a haven in a heartless world.
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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.
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If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring.
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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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