It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance. - Lena Horne

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He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project; he was credulous enough to believe in the old adage of honor amongst thieves.

Lena Horne

It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.

Flower, Fragrance, Nice, Smell

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I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

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It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.

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I thought of singing and acting as a living-making. I was able to take care of myself and a few of my friends.

Acting, Care, Singing, Thought

50 years old is like springtime to me.

Like, Old, Springtime, Years

As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.

Mad, Mouth, Mouths, Open, Trying

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In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.

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The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God.

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When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.

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I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho[ugh] popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho[ugh] I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.

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