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The English and, more latterly, the British, have the habit of acquiring their institutions by chance or inadvertence, and shedding them in a fit of absentmindedness.


Lord Hailsham

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As we wave our goodbyes,
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do a...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We still should have enough time to reach Rome.”
Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav...
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The taxi driver grinned in...
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C. JOYBELL C. She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
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NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.
AMIT RAY God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c...
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CARRIE RYAN Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.
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RICK RIORDAN Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!”
She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te labe...
RICK RIORDAN If not for the horses, Piper would've died.
RICK RIORDAN Pluto's pauldrons,” Reyna cursed.
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LORD OF THE RINGS All that is gold does not glitter Not all those who wander are lost The old who are strong do not wh...
LORD OF THE RINGS I like half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as y...
LORD OF THE RINGS Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity!
LORD OF THE RINGS PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death i...
LORD OF THE RINGS How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to und...
LORD OF THE RINGS I'm naked in the dark...there's nothing...nothing...
LORD OF THE RINGS I can avoid being seen if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift.
LORD OF THE RINGS Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tem...
LORD OF THE RINGS My Precious - Gollum and the One Ring
LORD OF THE RINGS Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all wh...
LORD OF THE RINGS The mines are no place for a pony, even one so brave as Bill. Bye-bye Bill.
LORD OF THE RINGS They will find the Ring, and kill the one who carries it.
LORD OF THE RINGS So you have chosen.....Death.
LORD OF THE RINGS ...But the hearts of men are easily corrupted... And the ring of power has a will of its own.
LORD OF THE RINGS PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end her...
LORD OF THE RINGS Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

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LORD BYRON The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
LORD BYRON If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
LORD BYRON Absence - that common cure of love.
LORD BYRON Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
LORD LONGFORD God help the patient.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
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LORD KAMES Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
LORD CHESTERFIELD You must look into people, as well as at them.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
LORD JEFFREY If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and e...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o...
LORD CHESTERFIELD All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
LORD KELVIN Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always th...
LORD CHESTERFIELD I learned very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is; What is th...
LORD TRENT A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
LORD DARLING Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Take the tone of the company you are in.
LORD CHESTERFIELD For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the de...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The ideal committee is one with me as the chairman, and two other members in bed with the flu.
LORD MILVERTON Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does...
LORD MORAN A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
LORD DARLING If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
LORD CHESTERFIELD