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Henry David Thoreau
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Henry David Thoreau
Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh.
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Augusta E. Rundell
Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
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Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public.
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Henry Graham Greene
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Nicolas Boileau
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. (A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.)
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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Lytton Strachey
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
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Jean de La Fontaine
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Antiphanes
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
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Thomas Jefferson
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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Aretha Franklin
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
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