Nuala O'Faolain Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We are not by nature cruel.
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Women are amazing lovers.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
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I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.
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I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.
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I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you!
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Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.
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From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road
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Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind.
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Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.
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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
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Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.
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Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
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Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.
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To revive sorrow is cruel.
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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
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Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
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Great men are never cruel without necessity.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
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You never know. Something small and broken really can be powerful.
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Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.
