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I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

Respect Expect Novel Fiction
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I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Rather Silence Wise Tongue
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

Man You Random Honor
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My will is mine ... I shall not make it soft for you.

Will Mine Make Soft
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Word Are Mind Disease
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The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

Gaze Young Escape Mark
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Escape Tomorrow You Evading
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Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

Respect Altar Profit Foot
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

Complain Thorn Can Rose
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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Easy Foot Calamity Advice
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God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

God Mortal Cause Destroy
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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Been Wisdom Driven Overwhelming
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.

Love Eyes Women Men
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What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.

Important Woman Beautiful Entertaining
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A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

Wound Pierce Doth Pace
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing.

Bear Mind Success Important
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The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It t

Understand Man Exciting Challenge
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I'm a compulsive buyer. Anything beautiful I see I want. That's how we got the Waldorf Astoria. I told Conrad Hilton, 'I want the Waldorf,' and he bought it. The only problem was I divorced him before the escrow was finished.

Beautiful Divorce Escrow Compulsive
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
Fight Mother Save Fortune
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For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow; it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.

Blow Pay Done Suffer
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A girl must marry for love - and keep on marrying until she finds it.

Girl Marry Love Find
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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

Fine Future Small Piece
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Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

Night Conceal Think Behold
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A phantom queen through all the house shall rove; and all the joy doth flee the sculptured forms of beauty once did give; and in the penury of eyes that live, all Aphrodite's grace is lost in empty space.

Queen Beauty Penury Grace
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Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

Child Health Soul Dear
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Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Life Middle Neither Despot
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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer who remarked to a companion once that ‘it was not best to swap horses while crossing streams’.

Myself Conclude Best Story
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Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.

Respect Veil Frankly Mind
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I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

Platform Best Bargain Have
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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

World Slave Freedom Deserve
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Freedom Preserve Save Earth
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No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.

Bribe Pass Under Temple
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Let war stay abroad; it makes no difficulty in coming, for the man who will have in him a strong desire for glory. I disapprove of a bird’s battling in its own home.

Make Desire Home Abroad
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The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God’s green earth.

Victory Complete Proclaim God
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In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

Pain Forget Drop Wisdom
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No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other’s consent. I say this is the leading principle–the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

Man Good Enough Sheet
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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the sky and say there is no God.

Might Possible Could Look
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Ability Man Exist Have
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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for h

Toward Charity Battle Cherish
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I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the w

Art Creation World Conduct
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My concern is not whether God is on our side; My greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Always Concern Right Side
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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book.

Regard Book Best Gift
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The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God’s purpose is something different from the purpose of either party – and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

Party Claim Wrong Effect
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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
Poor Who Man Mother
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I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.
Born Ordered Service Room
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If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.

Man Marriage Mind Time
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Being under my own roof, and my personality not invaded by others makes a lot of difference in my outlook on life and everything. Oh, to be once more alone in a house!

Life Alone Personality Invade
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Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It's a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn't work out, they can't take that away from you.
Girl Married Once Life
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I am a horsewoman. I am a princess. I am Zsa Zsa.

Princess Horsewoman I
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It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.

Husband Partner Lifetime Someone
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