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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto… — Saint Augustine
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — Saint Augustine
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. — Marcus Aurelius
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. — Jane Austen
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little… — Jane Austen
I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it. — Diane Ackerman
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards.… — Teresa of Avila
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as… — Teresa of Avila
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their… — Teresa of Avila
When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No… — Teresa of Avila
If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a very high level… — David Axelrod
My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was… — Dan Aykroyd
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are… — Sai Baba
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in… — Sai Baba
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a… — Sai Baba
I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me. — Jensen Ackles
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those… — Charles Babbage
What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that… — Jensen Ackles
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. — Irving Babbitt
When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling… — Lauren Bacall

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