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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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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the…
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A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.
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Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve.
— Adolf Hitler
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He walked into a room and everything stopped. Elvis was just so physically beautiful that even if he didn't have any talent...…
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John Terry wears his shirt on his sleeve
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God's always got a custard pie up his sleeve.
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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
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There was always, he thought, this pleasure ahead of him, an ace of joy up his sleeve so he could say you…
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The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited…
— Charles de Gaulle
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I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots,…
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Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have some regard…
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