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Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.


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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.



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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.



One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.



I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.



The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.



Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.



He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.



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Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?



Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.



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Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.





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