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But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than…
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It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
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Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape…
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I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that…
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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
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The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out…
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We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
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The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
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I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ...…
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I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience…
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I haven't much time to be fond of anything . . . But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most…
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below,…
— Saint Basil
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When turkeys mate they think of swans.
— Johnny Carson
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Get my swan costume ready.
— Anna Pavlova
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It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will…
— Bernard DeVoto
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Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white…
— Robinson Jeffers
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Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who…
— Dr. Seuss
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We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing
— George Carlin
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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.
— Maeve Binchy
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I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about…
— Thom Yorke
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I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in 'Beige Swan.' I'm going to…
— Amy Poehler
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Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and…
— Gautama Buddha
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