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-- Anatole France "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
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Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
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>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
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-- Vincent Van Gogh Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
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There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
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