The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms. - Julian Fellowes

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When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

Julian Fellowes

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

Lay, Lays, Learning, Life, Life Is, Term

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Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

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Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

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To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

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What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

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Vulgarity is no substitute for wit

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