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Don't underestimate the cosmetic power of sunglasses. It's worth spending a bit of money on a quality pair. I usually go for Dior or Louis Vuitton.


Dita Von Teese

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JOHANN VON GOETHE The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnes...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE A useless life is an early death.
JOHANN VON GOETHE A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and tha...
OTTO VON BISMARCK CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right ...
OTTO VON BISMARCK The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken
LUDWIG VON MISES The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you ha...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
JOHANN VON GOETHE He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
JOHANN VON GOETHE A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of sol...
JOHANN VON GOETHE In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I hav...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that u...
JOHANN VON GOETHE What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerful...
JOHANN VON GOETHE We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
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