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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Topic: Charm
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
Topic: Books
Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
Topic: Weakness
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Topic: Poetry
O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.
Topic: Night
Author: George Eliot
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
Topic: Nostalgia
Author: A E Housman
And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
Topic: Equality
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Topic: Justice
Author: Cicero
The Television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV.
Topic: Television
Author: C L Gray
Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
Topic: Writer
The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.
Topic: Body
To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
Topic: Hope
Author: Cicero
Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is amirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.
By the far bridge many a spent cartridge Cheney killed 81 birds that day but in the pear tree survived ...... the partridge.
Topic: Blood
FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.
Eat to your heart’s content.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Topic: Unity
Author: Edmund Burke
Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it will come off easily.
Author: Anonymous