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We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

—Bernard Meltzer

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Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

—William Hazlitt

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The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

—Henry J. Tillman

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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

—Jane Austen

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If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.

—Elaine Gill

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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

—John Henry Newman

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All progress is experimental.

—John Jay Chapman

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

—Malcolm de Chazal

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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

—Georges Clemenceau

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A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

—Fred Allen

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Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

—P. J. O'Rourke

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I thought I was in love. And when you think you’re in love, you are willing to stick it out and make it work until it is love.

—Becca Fitzpatrick in Silence

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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

—Karl Barth

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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

—François Rabelais

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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

—Billy Wilder

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