"Emotions have taught mankind to reason."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on emotions
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"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on deception   

"How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!"

Shakespeare, William on absence
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again."

Wilde, Oscar on writers and writing
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"Teach only love for that is what you are."

A Course In Miracles on love
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"What we need is to use what we have."

Walsh, Basil S. on action
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"If people did not compliment one another there would be little society."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on compliments   

"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever."

Caen, Herb on immortality
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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

Anderson, Margaret on love
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"Love is a great beautifier."

Alcott, Louisa May on love
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"The earth laughs in flowers."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on laughter
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"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain."

Chaplin, Charlie on laughter
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"You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself."

Barrymore, Ethel on laughter
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"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

Gogh, Vincent Van on adventure
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"I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column."

Marquis, Don on journalism and journalists   

"In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent."

Marquis, Don on parents and parenting
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"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists."

Marquis, Don on pessimism
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"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

Marquis, Don on poetry and poets   

"Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind."

Marquis, Don on poetry and poets   

"Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."

Marquis, Don on blood
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"If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you."

Marquis, Don on thoughts and thinking   

"i don't miss you.. i miss who i thought you were."

Unknown on love
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"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on science
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