Category: writer
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When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.
Voltaire
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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Ambrose Bierce
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I love to dance, and sing – in the shower, not in public. I’m too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing – dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.
Zadie Smith
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Don’t be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach
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A great many men’s gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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My pride fell with my fortunes.
William Shakespeare
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Rudyard Kipling
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens
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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
Alexis de Tocqueville