Top 100 Thing Which Quotes

#1. Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

Lord David Cecil

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#2. This small little thing, which was started to give people a way of life, with love and dedication, shall prevail in the coming change of the Age.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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#3. We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.

Alice Cary

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#4. What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything down and find the kind of essence, the skeleton if you like, which can then be fleshed out by performance and cinematography.

Salman Rushdie

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#5. There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.

Lascelles Abercrombie

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#6. If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.

Henry Ford

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#7. Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled.

William, Saroyan

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#8. The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.

Norman Mailer

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#9. Peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for ...

Abraham Lincoln

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#10. Excess of grief, like excess of joy is a violent thing which lasts but a short time. The heart of man cannot remain long in one extremity.

Victor Hugo

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#11. As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but you've really got to wait it out and be resilient and keep it going and keep everybody motivated.

Danny Huston

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#12. The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be.

Willa Cather

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#13. The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that they can give what they have not received, a thing which cannot be otherwise acquired.

Giacomo Leopardi

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#14. The road out there is long, to find the right people is like to find the people which will show how much times you have been right. All people remember when you screw up, but few remember when you are doing the stuff right,... the only thing which can help you is the quotes - so keep reading them!

Deyth Banger

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#15. To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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#16. The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.

George Whitefield

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#17. Thomas Aquinas said of suffering, as Aristotle had said of shame, that it was a thing not good in itself; but a thing which might have a certain goodness in particular circumstances. That is to say, if evil is present, pain at recognition of the evil, being a kind of knowledge, is relatively good.

C.S. Lewis

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#18. I'm sometimes accused of being hostile to mutual funds. That's not fair, really. There is a place for them. Still, I am hostile to one thing, which is trying to use funds to time your way in and out of the market. That's a recipe for very bad results.

Kenneth Fisher

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#19. At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

Carter G. Woodson

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#20. As he stood by the desolate fire, he felt that the only one thing which could assuage his grief would be thorough and complete retribution, brought by his own hand upon his enemies.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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#21. I've always done the safest thing, which is to assume that it's going to feel like that, to assume that you're going to feel like a freshman in a group of seniors - if you expect the worst, then it's never going to be that bad.

Janina Gavankar

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#22. It all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end. Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is most to be deplored.

Bram Stoker

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#23. He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

G.K. Chesterton

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#24. Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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#25. I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!

Natasha Henstridge

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#26. When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

Robertson Davies

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#27. I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

Brian Eno

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#28. She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and made of it a fine, even glittering, success; and this is a thing which is not easily forgiven.

Louis Bromfield

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#29. There is one thing ... which a man can always do, if he chuses[sic], and that is, his duty.

Jane Austen

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#30. Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

Baruch Spinoza

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#31. Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

Adam Smith

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#32. It is useless to cry over a thing which is not belong to you ...

Jawad Khalid

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#33. No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

John Calvin

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#34. I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me.

Dave Matthews

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#35. People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding - a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

Wilhelm Stekel

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#36. I get to do a lot of things I don't usually get to do with the boys. I love playing guitar and rocking out on stage, so I do a ton of that with my solo project. [Backstreet Boys] all give each other the freedom to do our own thing, which just makes the bond the five of us have stronger

Nick Carter

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#37. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you.

T.H. White

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#38. I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.

Samuel R. Delany

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#39. I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing ... Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?

Utah Phillips

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#40. The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on.

Ruth Stout

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#41. Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.

Malcolm Gladwell

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#42. And what is that thing which you promise to provide?- 'The beauty of the soul and the simplicity of happiness', he replied.

Aporva Kala

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#43. If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which you may push around at your convenience. It is more than a thing, it is a voice, a word, the very Word of the living God.

A.W. Tozer

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#44. The tighter a deadline is, the more I'm inclined to be perverse and rebellious - I'll start thinking about another, different project, until it becomes the most fantastic thing which I must start immediately.

Errollyn Wallen

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#45. Love is what moves the world, I've always thought ... it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down ... bring them low ... and make them crawl ...

Stephen King

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#46. Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Simone Weil

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#47. The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#48. A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

Elbert Hubbard

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#49. The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. ... Every separation is a link.

Simone Weil

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#50. I'd prefer to include sex scenes alongside the adventure scenes and everyday-life scenes, as if they were all part of the same thing. Which of course they are. Sex is not discrete from the rest of our existence.

Alan Moore

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#51. I spend a lot of time on TV doing the same sort of thing. I found a niche in TV where people are willing to steadily employ me to do this one thing, which I put spins on and change.

Tyler Labine

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#52. I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go.

C.S. Lewis

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#53. I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.

Madhuri Dixit

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#54. Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own heart will know. ... Pursue the enjoyments which are of good repute; for pleasure attended by honor is the best thing in the world, but pleasure without honor is the worst.

Isocrates

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#55. The MacGuffin is that thing which is most important to us - that most essential thing. The audience will supply it, each member for himself.

David

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#56. Everyone has his own agenda, and it can overshadow the important thing, which is to capture a great performance. They listen to it and think, "Oh, I'm not mixed loud enough ... I missed a note there ... I'm a half-step off on the turnaround."

Dick Latvala

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#57. Pain has been never been a gain... it has been the thing which stops people.

Deyth Banger

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#58. The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age

G.K. Chesterton

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#59. There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just be that British hip-hop will always be as it is: an underground thing which will stay that way.

Zadie Smith

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#60. Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and which is most coveted by men of high station, and is the prize awarded for the noblest deeds; and such a thing is honor, for honor is clearly the greatest of external goods.

Aristotle.

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#61. A vice is a thing which may be applauded in moderation but becomes horrific in overuse.

Graham Moore

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#62. The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real.
-Suite Scarlett

Maureen Johnson

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#63. Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business. We live and breathe only one thing, which is wanting to connect consumers with great local businesses, and I don't feel we can do that if we don't have effective ways to prevent gaming of the system.

Jeremy Stoppelman

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#64. Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Thomas Carlyle

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#65. The natural does not have to be a specific representation. I am now working on a thing which is a reconstruction of a starry sky, yet I make it, nevertheless, without a given in nature.

Piet Mondrian

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#66. You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

Bede Griffiths

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#67. The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.

Mary MacLane

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#68. Understanding that which is foreign to you is fundamental to cultivating a sense of connection and unity with one another. We are ultimately trying to accomplish the same thing, which is survival and the thriving of a better world.

Adrian Grenier

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#69. It is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

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#70. Nowadays the thing which is going to help us in hard times are the books/films... movies.... series... they are filled with such tragedy and horror and everything which you are going to see in real life.

Deyth Banger

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#71. But the eternal is not a thing which can be had regardless of the way in which it is acquired; no, the eternal is not really a thing, but is the way in which it is acquired.

Soren Kierkegaard

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#72. I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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#73. It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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#74. I don't have time to read popular fiction. I'm too busy with work.' Secretaries, he thought acidly, read that junk, at home in bed at night. It stimulates them. Instead of the real thing. Which they're afraid of. But of course really crave.

Philip K. Dick

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#75. Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

George Bernard Shaw

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#76. The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase
our coffin.

Charles Caleb Colton

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#77. It was typical, he thought, that it had come to this. One minute he was happily selling forged certificates and making good money and the next he was forced to choose between torture, amputation or leaping into a pile of corpses. It was the kind of thing which always seemed to be happening to him.

C.S. Quinn

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#78. Color is nothing, I do not even notice it, I know only one thing, which is the purity of my conscience and the whiteness of my soul.

Frantz Fanon

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#79. Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

Jim Bishop

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#80. In a big city you become a ghost; you walk on the crowded streets and realise that you are a kind of transparent entity; an indistinct being, a thing which is not something!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#81. And found there one of those huge comprehensive anthologies of literature, the sort of thing which, on a bad day, can induce an inferiority complex ...

Sara Levine

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#82. I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.

Chris Ware

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#83. If person have excuse for Every bad thing which use to do with others.than its wrong soul in human body

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

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#84. Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

Andre Malraux

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#85. All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality, the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Arthur Christopher Benson

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#86. It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

Seneca The Younger

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#87. The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.

James Anthony Froude

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#88. This is a thing which astonishes me no end, but affects you not.

Jack Kerouac

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#89. Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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#90. We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us.

Garth Stein

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#91. I like anything with a live audience. I love sitcom work. I hope it comes back in fashion because I really love it. I love single-camera work, too, but in a different way than that live-audience thing, which is really exciting.

Ana Gasteyer

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#92. It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense of itself, which has no subject, which means absolutely nothing from the logical point of view ... should speak so strongly in us ... that we feel compelled to paint ...

Giorgio De Chirico

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#93. A thing which has lost its idea is like the man who has lost his shadow, and it must either fall under the sway of madness or perish.

Jean Baudrillard

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#94. Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

John Keats

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#95. Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

Charles Williams

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#96. There was no such thing as pure happiness. How many years it took to learn that! Always some dark fretted thing which unbalanced the ease one had laboriously found.

Anya Seton

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#97. And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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#98. Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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#99. And among adults, adultery is an unmentionable thing, which only occurs in the Bible and in Mobile.

Michael McDowell

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#100. A thing which fades With no outward sign- Is the flower Of the heart of man In this world!

Ono No Komachi

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