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Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're…
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That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.
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...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
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The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination…
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I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.
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Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her like petals…
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Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way.
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You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life.
— Ivan Bunin
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You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what…
— Walter E. Williams
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The devil finds work for idle hands.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Idle hands make fretful minds.
— Shelley Shepard Gray
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
— Isaac Watts
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Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with…
— Gregory Maguire
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There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions…
— Milan Kundera
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That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and…
— Henry Ford
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Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.
— Holly Black
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I find work for idle hands
— Christon Henry
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