It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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I always say to my Twitter followers to come to the stage door and meet me. What I love about being in the theatre, rather than filming, is that you meet your audience. ~Sheridan Smith
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. ~Danielle Steel
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~Arabic Proverb
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Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time, they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. ~Thomas Friedman
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I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
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Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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I adore clothes, they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished. ~Anne Robinson
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~Edmund Burke
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I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them. ~Helen Mirren
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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