That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him … - George Eliot

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I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

George Eliot

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

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People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

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All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.

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