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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Topic: Charm
Author: Cyril Connolly
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
Author: Francis Bacon
Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
Topic: Weakness
Author: Alexander Pope
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Topic: Poetry
Author: Joseph Joubert
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.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
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
Author: John James Ingalls
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Daniel J Boorstin
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
Author: Benjamin Franklin
The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.
Topic: Body
Author: Julien Offroy De La Mettrie
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.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Kirsten Zambucka
By the far bridge many a spent cartridge Cheney killed 81 birds that day but in the pear tree survived ...... the partridge.
Topic: Blood
Author: O Anna Niemus
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.
Topic: Undertakers
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Anonymous