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“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
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“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
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19th Century Literature
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Some people say potato, others, potato. Some say tomato, and others, it has been reported, say tomato. Some people say the 19th century was a boring ...more
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