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Birds in their little nests agree/And 'tisa shameful sight,/When children of one family/Fall out, and chide, and fight.

#isaacwatts

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Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

#julianbarnes

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Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

#williampenn

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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

#georgewashington

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Time brings everything

#plato

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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

#stephenking

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Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young,/ The young are beautiful — but the old are more beautiful than the young.

#waltwhitman

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The leopard follows his nature as the lamb does, and acts after leopard law; she can neither help her beauty, nor her courage, nor her cruelty; nor a single spot on her shining coat; nor the conquering spirit which impels her; nor the shot which brings her down.

#williammakepeacethackeray

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In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.

#geoffreycotterell

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You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

#jamesmcneilwhistler

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[Of animals] They do not sweat and whine about their condition,/They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,/They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,/Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,/Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.

#waltwhitman

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Old age is no such uncomfortable thing if one gives oneself up to it with good grace, and don't drag it about 'To midnight dances and the public show'.

#horacewalpole

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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

#waltwhitman

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Love your neighbour is not merely sound Christianity; it is good business.

#observer

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'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry — every man of every nation has done that — 'tis the living up to it that is difficult.

#williammakepeacethackeray

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No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

#woodrowwilson

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

#oscarwilde