Poetry is life distilled.
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My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.
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My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
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But earthlier happy is the rose distilled Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn,...
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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