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This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.


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A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.



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Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.



Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.



Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.



A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.



Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.



Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.



Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.



In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.



Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.





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As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.



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I don't know if Jared Leto or Leo [DiCaprio] would ever do Fuller House, but you never know.



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And personally I will say that Amy Poehler deserves about a thousand trophies and so one is a good start, and I'm hoping this is the first of a thousand. That's my personal hope.



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It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.



I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.




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