One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)
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She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
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EDWARD HOAGLAND Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr...
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EDWARD TELLER Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.
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EDWARD GIBBON Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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EDWARD STEICHEN I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
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EDWARD BLISHEN I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
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EDWARD GIBBON Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is...
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EDWARD DOWDEN The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
EDWARD SIMMONS The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
EDWARD GIBBON If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.
EDWARD GARDNER