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The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to…
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In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call…
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Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise,…
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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch…
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
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Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate…
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It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children,…
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How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them;…
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To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental…
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Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay,…
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For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.
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That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
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Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise,…
— George Gissing
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The solution "cost me study that robbed me of rest for an entire night."
— Johann Bernoulli
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Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.
— Moby
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I've aged. 'Patagonia' has robbed me of a decade of my life.
— Matthew Rhys
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So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden…
— Michelangelo
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He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.
— Hermann Hesse
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I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of…
— Graham Greene
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She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of…
— Graham Greene
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This is the meanest thing anyone’s ever done to me,” I said, through my tear-clogged throat. “I want you to know that.”…
— Jennifer Weiner
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
— Sigmund Freud
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Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.
— Bruce Coville
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