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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
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You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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- Bertrand Russell
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Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
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It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
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? Work It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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