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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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Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.
— Robert Herrick
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
— A. E. Housman
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emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea...
— Anne Sexton
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The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the…
— William Blake
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Good advice is rarer than rubies.
— Salman Rushdie
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We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen…
— Andy Serkis
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At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press…
— Clint Eastwood
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I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a…
— Elizabeth Taylor
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Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a…
— John Heywood
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Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.
— Josef Albers
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Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is…
— Pliny the Elder
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