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Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

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A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.

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I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

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The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

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Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.

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We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.

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There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

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