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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

—Jerome K. Jerome

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Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.

—Robert Orben

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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

—Josh Billings

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I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

—John Maynard Keynes

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Romantic love, I think, requires a degree of physical attraction, but devotion is needed to maintain it as an actual relationship. Physical attraction is a feeling you don’t really have control over, but devotion is something that has to be chosen.

—Angela N. Blount in Once Upon A Road Trip

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His lying is not contingent on who you are or what you do. His lying is not your fault. Lying is his choice and his problem, and if he makes that choice with you, he will make it with any other woman he’s with.

—Susan Forward in When Your Lover Is a Liar

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Be who you are and be that well.

—Francis de Sales

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Love alone could waken love.

—Pearl S. Buck

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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

—Hesketh Pearson

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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

—Alvin Toffler

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I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry.

—John Cage

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Everything I do with you feels like an adventure.

—Steph Campbell in Depths

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It seems to me that the experiences that stay with you, the things you’ll always remember, aren’t the ones you can force, or go looking for. I’ve always thought of those things as the ones that somehow find you.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

—Samuel Butler

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The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

—Daniel Webster

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