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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, / And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

—Juvenal

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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

—Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

—Samuel Johnson

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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

—Robert Browning

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The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

—Plautus

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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

—Ansel Adams

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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

—Jackie Kennedy

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Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

—Anne Campbell

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Some of the sweetest moments in life come from second chances.

—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger

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All I'm telling you to do is to be smart about it. Know that if this man isn't looking for a serious relationship, you're not going to change his mind just because you two are going on dates and being intimate. You could be the most perfect woman on the green earth—you're capable of interesting conversation, you cook a mean breakfast, you hand out backrubs like sandwiches, you're independent—but if he's not ready for a serious relationship, he's going to treat you like sports fish.

—Steve Harvey in Think Like a Man

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Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.

—Bertrand Russell

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I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

—Robert McCloskey

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

—Umberto Eco

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The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

—Ginger Rogers

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