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My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.
Topic: Eating
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Topic: Education
Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
Topic: Body
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.
Topic: Society
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune: for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
Topic: Fortune
The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.
Topic: Wonders
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
Topic: Paradise
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
One must be poor to know the luxury of living.
Topic: Poverty
Procastination is the thief of Time.
Topic: Time
So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons he has given,-- The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.
Topic: Strength
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Topic: Doubt
And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Topic: Will
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.
Topic: Compromise
Sometimes I need what only you can provide your absence.
Topic: Absence
We've been together now for forty years, An' it don't seem a day too much; There ain't a lady livin' in the land As I'd swop for my dear old Dutch.
Topic: Matrimony
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
Topic: Education
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Topic: Romance
Author: Thomas Mann
The Lion, the Mouse, and the Fox A lion, fatigued by the heat of a summer's day, fell fast asleep in his den. A Mouse ran over his mane and ears and woke him from his slumbers. He rose up and shook himself in great wrath, and searched every corner of his den to find the Mouse. A Fox seeing him said: A fine Lion you are, to be frightened of a Mouse. 'Tis not the Mouse I fear, said the Lion I resent his familiarity and ill-breeding. Little liberties are great offenses.
Author: Aesop
Tetchy and wayward. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4.