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When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain in Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
classic quote by Agatha Christie
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I do not understand the axiom "learning to die is not easy". Even the dumbest can do it.
aphorism by Hasier Agirre, translated by Dan Costinaş
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Money doesn't bring happiness, but certainly it's not an obstacle to reach it.
quote by Josep Pla, translated by Dan Costinaş
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There was Old Man in a pew,
Whose waistcoat was spotted with blue;
But he tore it in pieces
To give to his nieces,
That cheerful Old Man in a pew.
limerick by Edward Lear from A Book of Nonsense (1846)
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Slender: I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live again, but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick: if I be drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves.
classic lines from The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (1602)
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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
quote by Aristotle
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This Is Just To Say
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
poem by William Carlos Williams (1934)
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Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age
The child is grown, and puts away childish things.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Nobody that matters, that is. Distant relatives of course
Die, whom one never has seen or has seen for an hour,
And they gave one candy in a pink-and-green stripéd bag, or a jack-knife,
And went away, and cannot really be said to have lived at all.
And cats die. They lie on the floor and lash their tails,
And their reticent fur is suddenly all in motion
With fleas that one never knew were there,
Polished and brown, knowing all there is to know,
Trekking off into the living world.
You fetch a shoe-box, but it’s much too small, because she won’t curl up now:
So you find a bigger box, and bury her in the yard, and weep.
But you do not wake up a month from then, two months
A year from then, two years, in the middle of the night
And weep, with your knuckles in your mouth, and say Oh, God! Oh, God!
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies that matters,
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poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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For you and for me, the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
classic quote by Anais Nin
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