"Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools."

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“Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.”

“I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.”

“They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.”

“Thou liar of the first magnitude.”

“It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.”

“Eternity was in that moment.”

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"I have a garden and across the road, a park. I never go for walks, but I look out the window and 'ask for permission' as I call it. If I need some green, I find it there. In that sense, I’m a very old…"

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Art1938–2018

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"By conducting a media fast - turning off the television, radio, and computer - we stop the influx of poison that keeps us buying and desiring more."

— Skye Jethani

faith1976

#family

"There was this assumption that I took a hard-nosed decision to prioritise a career over children. Women should not be judged for the reasons they have or don't have children."

— Nicola Sturgeon

Politics1970

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"Men of today seem to feel more acutely than ever the paradox of their condition. They know themselves to be the supreme end to which all action should be subordinated, but the exigencies of action for…"

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Philosophy1908–1986

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