"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves."

Wolfe, Thomas on cooking
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"A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on women
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"A heart in love with beauty never grows old."

Proverb, Turkish on art
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"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on love
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"Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will."

Millman, Dan on happiness
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"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on happiness
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"Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul."

Baudelaire, Charles on rejection
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"No answer is also an answer."

Proverb, German on decisions
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"Envy eats nothing, but its own heart."

Proverb, German on envy
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"All books are either dreams or swords."

Lowell, Amy on books - reading
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"Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will."

Cowper, William on passion   

"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more."

Cowper, William on knowledge
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"The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away."

Cowper, William on hope
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"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

Kipling, Rudyard on certainty
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"A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500."

Brewster, Benjamin on law and lawyers
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"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on purpose
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"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on advice
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"You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on fights and fighting
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"There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on greatness
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"Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on art
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"A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on intuition
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"Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on juries
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on argument
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"Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on love
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"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on love
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"Angels fly because they take themselves lightly."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on angels
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"In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity."

Alexander The Great on faith
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"A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality."

Fadiman, Clifton on food and eating
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"If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on work
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"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."

Ashe, Arthur on giving
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"A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind."

Cheever, John on loneliness
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"I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true."

Pirandello, Luigi on writers and writing
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"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."

James, William on failure
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"Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold."

Setter, Maurice on present   

"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

Gretzky, Wayne on risk
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"A good composer does not imitate; he steals."

Stravinsky, Igor on music   

"In Heaven all the interesting people are missing."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on heaven
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Edison, Thomas A. on opportunity
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"Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me."

Donne, John on infatuation
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"When you dream alone, with your eyes shut, asleep, that dream is an illusion. But when we dream together, sharing the same dream, awake and with our eyes wide open, then that dream becomes reality!"

Unknown, Source on dream
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