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Stephano: He that dies pays all debts.
classic line from the play The Tempest, Act III, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1611)
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People who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one.
Alice Munro in Selected Stories (1996)
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Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
classic quote by Francis Bacon
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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
classic quote by Alfred Nobel
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There was an Old Person of Leeds,
Whose head was infested with beads;
She sat on a stool,
And ate gooseberry fool,
Which agreed with that person of Leeds.
limerick by Edward Lear from A Book of Nonsense (1846)
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I remember dear Maude Skinner
Who ate beans, every night for dinner.
When she ate enough,
she would start to puff
and everyone was a winner.
limerick by Sylvia Spencer from Everyone Loves a Limerick
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
classic quote by Cicero
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Hamlet: I once did hold it, as our statists do, a baseness to write fair and labour'd much how to forget that learning, but, sir, now it did me yeoman's service.
classic line from Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
classic quote by Quentin Crisp
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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
John Stuart Mill in Utilitarianism, What Utilitarianism Is (1861)
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