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Andy Warhol
Love and sex can go
Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.
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Washington Irving
The great British Library --an
The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.
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Washington Irving
The sorrow for the dead
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal -- every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open -- this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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Washington Irving
Some minds seem almost to
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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Washington Irving
A woman's life is a
A woman's life is a history of the affections.
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Washington Irving
There is a certain relief
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift ones position, and be bruised in a new place.
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Washington Irving
Temper never mellows with age,
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Washington Irving
The tongue is the only
The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
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Washington Irving
There is a healthful hardiness
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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Washington Irving
Little minds are tamed and
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
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Peter De Vries
Gluttony is an emotional escape,
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
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Peter De Vries
It is the final proof
It is the final proof of Gods omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
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Peter De Vries
Everybody hates me because I'm
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
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Peter De Vries
The bonds of matrimony are
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.
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Peter De Vries
The rich aren't like us;
The rich aren't like us; they pay less taxes.
104
Peter De Vries
Confession is good for the
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff -- it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The valor that struggles is
The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Poverty in itself does not
Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
As high as mind stands
As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The East knew and to
The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The learner always begins by
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Animals are in possession of
Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
When liberty is mentioned, we
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We do not need to
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
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