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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
James M. Barrie
Time
You
Slip
Must
Some
Only
Hours
Because
Been
Golden
Against
Them
Warned
Letting
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
James M. Barrie
You
Woman
Matter
Else
Sort
Bloom
Anything
Anything Else
Much
Need
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
James M. Barrie
You
Sometimes
Past
Back
Way
Drawer
Out
Find
Something
More
Open
Particular
Safe
Force
Falls
Often
Crammed
Anything
Chilly
Interesting
Searching
Recalling
The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.
James Montgomery
Way
Silver
Winged
Dove
Peaceful
Her
Most scams are absurd - so absurd that one wonders how anyone falls for them at all; yet if no one falls for them, how do the scammers make money?
James Veitch
Money
Scams
No-One
Absurd
Most
Make
How
Falls
Wonders
Anyone
Them
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen
Woman
Misfortune
Conceal
Knowing
She
Well
Anything
Should
A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
Jane Austen
Home
Man
Woman
Better
Wish
Doubt
Think
Must
Would
No Doubt
Give
He
Takes
Mortals
Always
Than
Where
Regard
Happiest
Who
Her
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Jane Austen
Life
Nature
Given
Been
Taste
Pitied
Much
Who
Early
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen
Own
Aim
Distinction
Destroys
Dress
About
Excessive
Times
Frivolous
Often
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen
Good
Stupid
Gentleman
Pleasure
Must
Person
Lady
Who
Novel
I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.
Jane Austen
Life
My Life
Sit
Down
Other
Could
Write
Motive
Than
Any
Romance
Serious
Save
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Jane Austen
Love
Suffering
Nothing
Unless
Has-Been
Having
Does
Been
Place
Less
Suffered
The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.
Jared Harris
Will
Other
Monsters
Scariest
Human
Human Beings
Beings
Each
How long you can continue to be good at something is how much you believe in yourself and how much hard work you do with the training.
Jason Statham
Work
Hard Work
Good
You
Yourself
Training
Believe In Yourself
Long
Believe
Something
How
How Much
Continue
Much
Hard
If you can have a great story that people can follow the mystery and get the suspense, and then you have those moments of tension and a splash of visual fun, then you kind of get everything. You get your money's worth.
Jason Statham
Great
You
People
Money
Worth
Everything
Those
Kind
Visual
Follow
Mystery
Splash
Tension
Great Story
Get
Suspense
Story
Then
Your
Fun
Moments
What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
Jeanette Winterson
Own
Our
Crucial
Invisible
Also
Well-Being
Us
What you risk reveals what you value.
Jeanette Winterson
You
Value
Risk
Reveals
Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
Jeanette Winterson
God
Me
You
Matter
Cosmos
Mystery
Call
Want
Whether
I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.
Jeff Beck
Privacy
Tries
Cherish
Woe
Anyone
Interfere
Who
Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.
Jeffrey Bernard
Me
Memory
Drinking
Sit
Down
Boring
Taking
Almost
Journeys
Like
Dead
Gets
Endless
Oh
Being
Lane
Here
There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.
Jenny Nimmo
You
Peace
Mind
Focus
Nothing
Distraction
Like
Countryside
Quiet
Lack
Your
Helps
There is definitely a 'red carpet moment' to a bride's wedding day, but when designing for bridal, it is important to focus on the details that will captivate and capture the imagination of the bride - she has to fall in love with the gown.
Jenny Packham
Love
Day
Will
Focus
Important
Fall
Imagination
Definitely
Carpet
Details
Wedding
Red
Red Carpet
She
Gown
Moment
Bridal
Bride
Capture
Designing
Accessories are the perfect way to add something special. A hair comb or a beaded clutch can be a lovely detail to finish your bridal look.
Jenny Packham
Hair
Add
Way
Detail
Something
Finish
Something Special
Perfect
Comb
Look
Accessories
Lovely
Clutch
Your
Special
Bridal
We've got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party's membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation.
Jeremy Corbyn
Needs
Party
Believe
Membership
Mass
Becomes
Genuinely
Got
Up
Labour
Movement
Bigger
Organisation
Means
Stand
Stand Up
Even
There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, and I think everyone knows that.
Jeremy Corbyn
Peace
Think
Everyone
Unless
Involving
Knows
Talks
Israel
Hamas
Going
Process
Peace Process
Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.
Jeremy Corbyn
Diversity
Society
Intrinsic
Something
Democratic
Democratic Society
Person
Owned
Want
Whole
Media
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