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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. Charles Dickens
Will Before Ghost Must Idea Spoken Like Itself Explain Little
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. Charles Dickens
Life Myself Great Heart Whatever Earnest Aims Thoroughly All My Heart Tried Small Well Devoted Always Been
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. Charles Dickens
Day Others Self Wasted
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking. Charles Lamb
You Soul Made Beauty Shine Matters Possibility Superficial Through True True Beauty Leaking Most Attractive Error Disdain Common Where Places Should Body Your Your Body Appearance Belief
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment. Charlie Chaplin
Life Wrong Thing Right Moment Wrong Suppose Doing Ironies Moment Right Thing
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. Christopher Dawson
Good Fight Evil Men Destroy Out Indistinguishable Soon Becomes Permitted Decide Then Means Set
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. Cyril Connolly
Class Crime Slums Delirium Well May Middle Middle Class Suburbs Apathy Breeding Grounds
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. D. H. Lawrence
Woman Rule She Dry Stick Got Tiny Streak Her Harlot
It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations. Danny Boyle
Hope Good You Good Place Expectations Place
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. David Bowie
Man Superman Living Potential Prophet Mortal Stone Just Aged
As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself. David Bowie
Myself Being Myself Disguise Humiliation Stage Else Nerve Adolescent Through Songs Nobody Nobody Else Sing Withdrawn Doing Go Going Being Decided Them Really Painfully Actually Shy
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. David Hockney
Life Me Smoking My Life Politicians Down Exciting Calms Want Deciding Enjoyable
The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. David Ogilvy
Will More Advertising Informative Persuasive Your
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. Douglas Adams
Family Bird Consider Our Possibility Small Like Like A Duck Looks Duck Least Hands
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. Douglas Adams
Religion Me Business People Seriously Otherwise Find Take Does Intelligent Intelligent People Interesting Whole Profoundly
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? E. M. Forster
Good Daily Nature Sunrise Wind Stars Trees Our Enter Your Lives Daily Lives
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
World Better Preaching Down Ounce Pound Than Person Help
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. Edward de Bono
Perception Mistakes Thinking Logic Rather Most Than
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. Elizabeth I
Queen Single Married Would Rather Beggar Than
I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano. Elton John
You Guitar Someone Piano Head Over Smash Always Just Wanted
My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read. Emilia Clarke
Trust Book Father TV Never Make Read Sure Shelf Said Always Than Anyone Bigger Whose
We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers. Emmeline Pankhurst
Become Our Because Efforts Here
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. Evelyn Waugh
Art Destruction Construct Noblest Efforts Refrain Human Symbol Two
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on. Francis Bacon
Life God Man Theatre Men Must Angels Only Know Reserved
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. Freya Stark
Christmas Home Heart Carries Piece Event External
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. Geoffrey Chaucer
Wise Women Wife Be Brave Rich Obedient Husbands Generous Bed Brave Six Want Lively Things Desire
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