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[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.


Charles Dickens


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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.


Mikhail Bakunin


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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.


George Eliot


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I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.


Romeo LeBlanc


#am #among #children #future #help

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.


Charles Dickens


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What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell.


Reduced Shakespeare Company


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What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.


Marian Keyes


#paraphrased #stories #humor

So many things to see, people to do.


Neil Gaiman


#paraphrased #humor

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little


Shannon Hale


#romantic-humor #humor

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".


Malcolm X


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