Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
Ze Frank
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As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.
Edmund Spenser
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
Queen Victoria
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The child has talent, loves music, and needs help. I can't give her money, but I can teach her; so I do, and she is the most promising pupil I have. Help one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood, Fan.
Louisa May Alcott
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I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.
Marian Seldes
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I don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.
Christian Louboutin
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My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'
Gayle King
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I've started to get used to traveling a lot and performing, but still everything has grown so quickly and is very exciting!
Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
Kage Baker
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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
Patrick Ness
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Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. Neither is value in words and doctrines, it is reflected in human conduct. It is not what a man or groups of men say about value that counts, but how they act.
Ludwig von Mises
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Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
