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There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.: Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)
A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Animal Farm"
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After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Russian Flu, 1990
Dreams alone aren't enough to make your belly full.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.: Jim Beggs
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.: Italian Proverb
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Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.: The Mishnah
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.: Sam Ewing
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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
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The covers of this book are too far apart.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Simplicity is the peak of civilization.: Jessie Sampter
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.: Rabbinical Saying
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Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.: James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958)
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