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I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
Boys
Charles Dickens

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Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Mind
Charles Dickens

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Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Mind
Charles Dickens

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Books - Reading
Charles Dickens

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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Portraits
Charles Dickens

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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Poetry and Poets
Emily Dickinson

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Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
Nature
Emily Dickinson

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Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
Opportunity
Emily Dickinson

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Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
Farewells
Emily Dickinson

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May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.
Past
Paul Dickson

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X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Silence
R A Dickson

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His hands would plait the priests guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
Uncategorised
Denis Diderot

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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
Maxim
Denis Diderot

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Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
Justice
Denis Diderot

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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
Theater
Denis Diderot

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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Grammar
Joan Didion

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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Forgiveness
Marlene Dietrich

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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
Weakness
Marlene Dietrich

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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.
Music
Howard Dietz

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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Humor
Phyllis Diller

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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
Words
Phyllis Diller

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
Marriage
Phyllis Diller

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In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
Fights and Fighting
Paul Dirac

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It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Value
Roy Disney

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
Love
Walt Disney

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun