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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance;…
— Laozi
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
— Lady Randolph Churchill
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Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from…
— Samuel Johnson
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Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.
— Umar
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The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of…
— Grover Cleveland
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
— Oscar Wilde
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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally,…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make…
— Pericles
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My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me…
— Ina Garten
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The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It…
— Elihu Palmer
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The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is,…
— Friedrich Schiller
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