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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. Stephen Fry
Fruit Garden Experience Creation Every Tree Once Temperance Insult Least Taste Fully Wickedness
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. Stephen Gardiner
Good People Architecture Problems Good People Design Solved Come Buildings
I went window shopping today! I bought four windows. Tommy Cooper
Funny Today Shopping Window Windows Bought Four
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf
Truth Dreams Sometimes Our Our Dreams Top Idleness
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. Virginia Woolf
Happiness Life Man Independence Too Independent Bored Temperate Only Through Never He Himself Short Who Aware Profound
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. Virginia Woolf
Life Soul Quality Experience Mind Every Secret Writer Written His Large Works
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. W. Somerset Maugham
New Year's Dinner Party Too Dinner Party Eat Wisely Talk Well Should
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender. William Booth
Man Surrender Power His Greatness Measure
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. William E. Gladstone
Nothing Morally Morally Wrong Wrong Politically Right
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance. William Gilbert
Me You Trust World Wish Own Must Advance Bound Merits Stump Trumpet Stir Trust Me Blow Your Enhance Chance
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. Winston Churchill
Day Slow Single Build Destroy Thoughtless Single Day Years Laborious Task May Act
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. Winston Churchill
Smile War You Game Way Out Till Grin Keep Played
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. Winston Churchill
World Half Worst Lies About True Terrible Lot Going Them
No crime is so great as daring to excel. Winston Churchill
Great Crime Daring Excel
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. Winston Churchill
War Will Giants Over Begin Wars
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. Queen Victoria
Defeat Possibilities Exist Not Interested Interested
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic. A. J. P. Taylor
War Political Matter Given Economic Underlying Always Reason Reasons
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue. Arnold J. Toynbee
World Islam Virtue Muslims Propagation Outstanding Between Contemporary Crying Contemporary World Islamic Achievements Happens Race Consciousness Need Extinction
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. Arthur Helps
Better Beauty Humility Severe Temper Temperance Cosmetics Spirit Purity Countenance True True Beauty Without Calmness Very Than Graces Gracious Modesty
A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance. Bear Grylls
Needs Man Guidance Pride Others He Support Learn His Turn Downfall
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. Benjamin Disraeli
Myself Human Being Will Long Nothing Conviction Meditation Settled Must Brought Purpose Accomplish Existence Human Being Which Stake Fulfillment Even Resist
Never take anything for granted. Benjamin Disraeli
Take Never Never Take Anything Granted
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. Benjamin Disraeli
Future Respect Progress Preparation Conservatism Having Principle Makes Redress Antiquity Offers Shrinks Prescription Present Rejected
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. Bertrand Russell
Good Cruelty Hell Invented Delight Why Conscience
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. Bertrand Russell
People Other Secret Virtues About No-One Gossips
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. Bertrand Russell
Power Others Pleasure Consists Ourselves More Preventing Generally Greatest Greatest Pleasure Themselves Acquisition Next Enjoying
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