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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity

ArExpression Glory Letters Light
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

Destroy He Honors Learns
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Day Each EachDay Everybody
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Afraid Am Back Better
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If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Door God Grace Subliminal
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Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Acceptance Any Consequences First
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius

About Expressive Freshness Illiterate
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Great City Greatest Men
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Greatest Hut Man Still
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Conqueror Ever Exterior Life
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Both Composition Dialect English
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

AdmirAgainst Aside Disputed Great
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Artist Bad BadManners Humanity
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

Bones Fat Find Sticks
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Book
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Celebrate Myself Sing
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

Accept Time Me
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Essentially Greatest Poem
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Another Done Last Returns
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Confusion Each Happy Other
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Absorb Country He Him
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Aged Board Child Father
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Afterwards Centuries
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

Side Bolt
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Architect He Himself History
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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

Any Becomes Fails Fulfill
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Because Blame Common Determines
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Any Clear Fully Grasp
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I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

Nervous Stage Help But
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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Any Anything Believes Cheap
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

After Cheap Pay Price
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I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.

Quite Loud Bolshie Big
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It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.

Warts All Songs Think
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I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

Doubt Singing Forever Because
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I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.

Able Wouldn't Write Song
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Alter Altering Attitudes Beings
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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

Songs Really Direct Interviews
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My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet.

Body Rhythm Know Quite
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

After Chain Life Link
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Characters Endured Hell Hereafter
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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Argument Best Deserves Existence
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I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

Just Want Music People
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I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.

Adopting Ethiopian Child True
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I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

Write Another Breakup Record
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I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

People Confusing That About
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Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

Sports Illustrated Body Wear
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I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

Never Wanted Like Models
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As an actor, I am good at creating different characters.
Actor Different Good Creating
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Comedy is what I love doing and I like to make it as real as possible so that people can relate with it.

Relate People Possible Love
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I don’t always place too much emphasis on religion because there were religions before the white men came to Africa.

Africa White Religion Always
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