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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent. Voltaire
Top Excellent Bottom Middle
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything. Voltaire
Secret Everything Tell Bore Being The Secret Of
I was born free. W. E. B. Du Bois
Free Born
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. W. E. B. Du Bois
Book Classic Written Again
The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction. W. E. B. Du Bois
People World Matter Nineteenth Indeed Distinction Ancient Laughed Would Discovery Very Personal Modern Century Whiteness Twentieth Twentieth Century Among Thing
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Walter Anderson
Life Attitude Inevitable Worst Responsible Able Prevent Misfortunes Toward Although Am May Happening
The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males. Warren Farrell
Problem Care Saving About More Males Than Whales American
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. Washington Irving
Good Nature Mind Thought Weather Gifts Good Nature Troubled Over Like Most Smooth Spreading Inexhaustible Itself Precious Heaven Oil Sea Keeping
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant. Washington Irving
Good Jokes Humor Laughter Wine Meeting Rather Small Abundant Merry Equal Oil Where Companionship Honest
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes. Washington Irving
You Yourself Down Easiest Easiest Thing Ability Blaming Misfortunes Put Fail Lack Whenever Your Thing
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. Washington Irving
Solitude Affliction Duty Every Other Consider Brood Wound Seek Only Open Divorced Over Heal Dead Sorrow Cherish Forget Refuse Which Keep
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Washington Irving
Man Struggle Mind Poverty Ruined Must Pretense Purse Soon Between Come Empty Proud End Up Hollow Much Show Keeping
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale. Will Durst
Hope Anxiety Fear Comedy Defiance Laughter Face Back Contempt Inhale Creep
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. William Ellery Channing
Inspirational Love Faith Taking Form Aspiration
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. William R. Alger
Men Wrath Make Make Up Up Often Want Reason
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. William S. Burroughs
Business World Mind Trouble Own Virus Has-Been No Business Folks More Smallpox Most Because Caused Been Than Any Who
No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. William S. Burroughs
Life Death No-One Pick Up Owns Anyone Frying Who Pan
If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention. William S. Burroughs
You Responsibility Made Everyone Everything Responsible Must Beyond Intention Extend Conscious Level
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style. Quentin Crisp
Saying Good Will Style Farm Dancer Running Badly Pig Pigs Ballet Ballet Dancer Years While Then Really Meant Meant To Be Your
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. Quentin Crisp
Happiness Life Character Plant Other Immature Solely Consists Would Some Deliberately Consuming Development Toward Most Method Self-Sufficiency Person Hands Human Human Beings Moving Whole Beings Describe Searching Desire
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. Quentin Crisp
Life Funny Me Funny Thing Way Happened Grave Thing
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. Quentin Crisp
Failure You First Style May Succeed If At First Your
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. Ursula K. Le Guin
Good Great Free Baby Out Point Good Teachers Roads Make Artists Them Teachers Companions Rides
To oppose something is to maintain it. Ursula K. Le Guin
Oppose Something Maintain
There are no right answers to wrong questions. Ursula K. Le Guin
Wrong Answers Questions Right
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie
Sometimes Miserable Wildly Alive Through Know Sorrow Still Been Quite Just Grand Certainly Thing
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