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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about...
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The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for...
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Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree –...
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Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in...
Quote #12956
Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes...
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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he...
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It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing...
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The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve we must not...
Quote #2400
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her...
Quote #34740
Life’s dirty. Life’s unclean you know. It’s birth, it’s sex, it’s the intestinal tract....