For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
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Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Tryon Edwards
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Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.
Mary Arnim
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We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.
J. Dabney Day
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I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!".
Tom Fatjo
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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer
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You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.
Margaret Drabble
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The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.
London Sunday Correspondent
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The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.
Nicholson Baker
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Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.
Azel Backus
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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
Arthur James Balfour
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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Fr. Jerome Cummings
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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Og Mandino
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Nunc scio quit sit amor."
Lat., "Now I know what love is.
Virgil
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