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Stop the world. I want to get off. — Anthony Newley
To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Never looking anyone in the eye when you're traveling on public transport, in case it's interpreted as a sign that you're trying to get off… — Paulo Coelho
After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life… — Jane Smiley
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand… — Henry Ward Beecher
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity. — C.S. Lewis
It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be to throw open… — Thomas Jefferson
If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when… — George Washington
A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life. — Deborah Norville
Please keep off the grass. — Peter Ustinov
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture,… — Douglas Hofstadter
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think… — Mark Twain
After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign… — Jonathan Rauch
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes,… — Anne Frank
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it… — Thomas Huxley
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man,… — Desiderius Erasmus
Lovers should also have their days off. — Natalie Clifford Barney
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it? — George Eliot
They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in… — Plutarch

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