"I did not wish to live what was……" — Henry David Thoreau

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• Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
• I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
• Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
• Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. — Honore de Balzac
• What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided… — Brigitte Bardot
• Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. — John Barrymore
• An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of… — Joseph Addison
• A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. — George Ade
• Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble… — Pope Benedict XVI
• Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
• Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this… — Jeff Bridges

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