Barbara Holland Quotes
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If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it shows us that war was one of our most universal joys from our earliest beginnings, savored at every possible opportunity and even some quite incomprehensible ones.
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Very few people have no opinions about cats.
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The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.
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The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.
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By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.
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Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.
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A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.
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My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job.