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I am happy now that Charles calls on my bedchamber less frequently than of old. As it is, I endure but two calls a week, and when I hear his steps outside my door I lie down on my bed, close my eyes, open my legs, and think of England.

—Lady Alice Hillingdon

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As I grew to adolescence, I imagined, from closely observing the boredom and vexations of matrimony, that the act my parents committed and the one I so longed to commit must be two different things.

—Shirley Abbott

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The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

—Charles Kuralt

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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

—Gore Vidal

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Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

—Philip G. Hamerton

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

—Bernard Baruch

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Life. It’s a funny thing. Some want it, some throw it away. Some cling, some have it stolen from them. It’s terrifying.

—Kelsey Sutton in Some Quiet Place

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They tell you you’ll forget how it used to be. You’ll get used to it, that it’s better to move on. They don’t realize you can’t. You’re not the same person anymore.

—Amanda Sun in Ink

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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

—Edwin Land

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2 A.M. You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they’re asleep or its cold or you need to be bailed out of jail…they’ll come for you. It’s like the highest level of friendship.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

—John Andrew Holmes

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

—Dan Rather

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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

—Josh Billings

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