The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share … - Michel de Montaigne

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I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.

Michel de Montaigne

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

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Every man has within himself the entire human condition

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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

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Only the fools are certain and assured.

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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

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On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

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If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it. Why? Because it does. Growth doesn't just happen--not for me, not for you, not for anybody. You HAVE TO go after it.

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Brendan Behan

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

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Ben Mendelsohn

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Fact is, perfection is boring.

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Laini Taylor

This gown, is it cut from shadow?" the general asked. "I can barely feel it between my fingers. " Not for want of trying, thought Madrigal. "Perhaps it is a reflection of the night sky," he suggested, "skimmed from a pond?" She supposed that he was being poetic. erotic, even. In return, as unerotically as possible- more like complaining of a stain that wouldn't come out-she said, "Yes, my lord. I went for a dip, and the reflection clung.

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