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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
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ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
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ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
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ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
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WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin.
WALLIS SIMPSON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
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KATE MIDDLETON There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
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QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA

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MAYER HAWTHORNE you mourn, you hurt and you start to heal.
RACHEL HAWTHORNE James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn't have to mean boring. His...
MAYER HAWTHORNE Gary Numan had a huge influence on both my music and my style. He had his own unique fashion sense -...
MAYER HAWTHORNE My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try ...
MAYER HAWTHORNE The results were fantastic? they weren't expected to be so high.
ALAN HAWTHORNE I didn't appreciate Mick Jagger until I got older, and mainly because of the Mick Jagger swagger...
MAYER HAWTHORNE We have a contract in place with a developer. We're not at the point where we can name the developer...
ALAN HAWTHORNE We're very excited about it. There is a need for this kind of housing in the community. They will be...
ALAN HAWTHORNE Do you really expect the world of man to believe that innocent people had to die so you could make y...
ALICE HAWTHORNE You are a very small man, and like other men (of small stature), you have a Napoleonic complex and a...
ALICE HAWTHORNE Every anniversary has been filled with anger, weeping and sorrow, but this anniversary brings to an ...
ALICE HAWTHORNE My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the m...
MAYER HAWTHORNE I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul inf...
MAYER HAWTHORNE I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people ...
MAYER HAWTHORNE People will send me tweets or texts, 'Yo, I'm at Red Lobster now and they're playing May...
MAYER HAWTHORNE Man, I have so many names that everybody calls me something different. Some people call me Drew, som...
MAYER HAWTHORNE Probably our lives are full of symbols which only an unacknowledged sense perceives. Spiritual event...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE Since childhood, I had always been affected by the changes of the moon, sometimes very much so. As t...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE After breakfast I spent an hour cleaning my revolver and trying my skill at a target. Jane shook her...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come ...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil")
JULIAN HAWTHORNE States of the atmosphere pass into us as water through the meshes of a sieve, and storms occur in us...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of ima...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE It did not occur to me that absence of human companionship does not assure solitude. It may, on the ...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE ...the natures of solitary people are apt to have more unmapped country in them than worldly folk im...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE The trouble with competitors' sycophants is they don't know where to put their tongues. Here's a sug...
MAX HAWTHORNE ...adopt the "practice makes progress" approach
MARK HAWTHORNE It allowed public-land managers to prohibit anything at all if it might harm some resource.
BRIAN HAWTHORNE It is good to know one's enemy.
It is better to know one's self.
MAX HAWTHORNE I've been through a lot of situations with women and if I can help someone else avoid the pitfal...
MAYER HAWTHORNE They have accepted everything we've asked them to do and are playing a high level of volleyball.
EMILY HAWTHORNE At this point, she's our most improved player. She is still building confidence. Since she is about ...
EMILY HAWTHORNE Those two have pushed themselves and pushed the team to play at a higher level.
EMILY HAWTHORNE I think most of it comes from each person knowing their role on the team.
EMILY HAWTHORNE