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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
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-- Oscar Wilde The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment Art and science have their meeting point in method.
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
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Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
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Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
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-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Hell is other people.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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