“ But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest. ”
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“ Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. ”
- Robert F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me — I always feel that they have not said enough. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars. ”
- Les Brown- Copy
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“ Reason has moons, but moons not hers / Lie mirror'd on her sea, / Confounding her astronomers, / But, O! delighting me. ”
- Ralph Hodgson- Copy
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“ Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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