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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Fawn M. Brodie
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March we forth in the strength of God
With the banner of Christ unfurled,
That the light of the glorious gospel of truth
May shine throughout the World.
Alfred Ainger
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She watched the lights upon the shore. The glare that was Plymouth in the distance. She thought, the dance is over. The girls are going out of the overheated hall into the cold air. They shiver; their young men hurry after them. Some have got home and find their dresses stained or torn; yet they've enjoyed themselves. Which is the more important? Wallflowers think of the young men who haven't danced with them; probably each has a dream-day hero. Remember the lieutenant to whom I never spoke a word; yet I married him and had children and grandchildren, though he never knew it. And there are others, madly happy, look in their mirrors and smile and wonder. Even the latest home has a warm bed to go to.
Arthur Calder-Marshall
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Cricket at the highest level has never been simply a demonstration of sporting excellence; it has always been about winning and losing.
James Coldham
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The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.
Hartley Coleridge
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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
Carl Van Doren
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I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it.
Margaret Drabble
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The necessitarian falls back upon the experienced reality of facts.
James Anthony Froude
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Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World.
Richard Garnett
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All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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The business of a boys' author is not to consider political issues, but to entertain the readers, make them as happy as possible.
Charles Hamilton (writer)
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Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had changed his mind and decided to stay. Despite the blowup the day before, he was still eager for Jobs to like him. So he agreed to meet the next afternoon.
Walter Isaacson
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Shakespeare's relations with men and women of the court involved him at the outset in emotional conflicts, which form the subject-matter of his 'Sonnets'
Sidney Lee
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Dodgson of course was a meticulous traveler. He packed each article separately, well wrapped in paper to twice its bulk.
Florence Becker Lennon
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I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.
Roger Lewis
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It is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.
Edna O'Brien
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A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
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Just as there are O.K.-words in conversationship so there are O.K.-people to mention in Newstatesmanship.
Stephen Potter
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The problem with winning at blackjack and sports betting is that sooner or later a big guy in a suit tells you to leave.
William Poundstone
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O, saw ye the lass wi' the bonnie blue een?
Her smile is the sweetest that ever was seen,
Her cheek like the rose is, but fresher, I ween,
She 's the loveliest lassie that trips on the green.
Richard Ryan
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I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.
Mary Shelley
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If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?
John Lancaster Spalding
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And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other will warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune: yet many will not believe there is any such thing as sympathy of souls, and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion.
Izaak Walton
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I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet.
Mason Weems
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When will the dead world cease to dream,
When will the morning break?
William Winter
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