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How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.
He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.
If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.
Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.
The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.
Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.
Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.
A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia?
[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.
Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression.
I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.
Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.
He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.
So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.
Glad to see you’re still breathing.” – Caleb “Glad to be breathing.” – Nick
Things were about as normal as a Luddite working for Bill Gates.’ – Sundown
Your boyfriend is…well, way buff. Monster buff. Lord, king buff. (Sunshine)
Funny how internal scars never healed. They were the souvenirs of the past.
...it is by our actions that we are destroyed or saved. The choice is ours.
Because of his hormones, he only has three emotions: crabby, hungry, horny.
The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.
Poetry has roots, and sometimes they are aerial. Sometimes they are buried.
To find riches is a beggar’s dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.
A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.
There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.
Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!
Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck
When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options." -Bella
Please don't run away. And, um, I'd rather you didn't kick me again either.
The smile broke across his face the way the sunrise set the clouds on fire.