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The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the… — Lord Byron
Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling. — Oscar Wilde
We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well. — Javier MarÃas
Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul. — John Bunyan
My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard, for months, nor… — Alice Sebold
I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing… — Alan Moore
Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out. — Charles Dickens
My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on… — William Shatner
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been… — George Orwell
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount… — Bertrand Russell
Some days,' I say, 'I feel like I don't belong anywhere in that world. That world out there. 'I point to Grant. 'People walk down… — Ann M. Martin
You are in favour of the common people?â€ said Dragon mildly. The common people?â€ said Vimes. â€œTheyâ€™re nothing special. Theyâ€™re no different from the rich… — Terry Pratchett
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. — Edmund Burke
I think the way I feel when I look at Evan comes from her. In pictures taken the day she married my dad, she was… — Elizabeth Scott
Radar revs the engine as to say hustle, and we are running through the parking lot, Ben's robe flowing in the wind so that he… — John Green
And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the… — Maud Hart Lovelace
He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for… — Pearl S. Buck
There's nothing wild about me. I'm a solid middle-aged man." "Except that once a month you turn into a wolf and go tearing around slaughtering… — Cassandra Clare
At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams… — Robin McKinley
Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. Thereâ€™s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; thereâ€™s the size-doesnâ€™t-matter-except-in-my-case problem,… — Nick Hornby

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