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If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
Travel and Tourism
John Enoch Powell

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No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
Battles
John Enoch Powell

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An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.
Eyes
H. Powers

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Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
Beauty
Emily Prager

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.
Happiness
Duchess Prazlin

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
Truth
George D. Prentice

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Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
Debt
George D. Prentice

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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
Age and Aging
J. B. Priestley

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.
Work
Ray Prince

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And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
Bores and Boredom
Matthew Prior

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
Marriage
Matthew Prior

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
Hope
Matthew Prior

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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Argument
Matthew Prior

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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
Goals
Matthew Prior

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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
Nationalities and Nationalism
V. S. Pritchett

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The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
Books - Bestsellers
V. S. Pritchett

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The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees.
Committees and Meetings
V. S. Pritchett

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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
Humor
J. J. Procter

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Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.
Night
Bryan Waller Proctor

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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
Money
Sextus Propertius

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A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
Expectation
Marcel Proust

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Arts and Artists
Marcel Proust

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Happiness
Marcel Proust

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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
Relationships
Marcel Proust

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The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.
Habit
Marcel Proust

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