William Edmondstoune Aytoun Quotes
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And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.
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It's important to have a dream no matter how old you are.
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Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off.
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You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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If the Bible is true, then I'm Christ.
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I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.
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He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.
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You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.
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Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.
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A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we come, into nowhere we go. What is life? It is a flash of firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
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Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid!
