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Linda Wells
Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.
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Casey Stengel
The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
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Lao Tzu
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.
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Danish proverb
Three Spaniards, four opinions.
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Buddha
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
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Epicurus
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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Richard Bethell
Take a note of that his Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind.
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Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.
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Henry David Thoreau
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
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Osbert Sitwell
I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a profesional praiser.
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Confucius
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
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