Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed. - Robert Burns

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I move around a lot. Ive lived in a ton of different places - and only for a month or two at a time. I have a deep, rabid curiosity, so I like having a gypsy life.

Robert Burns

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

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While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.

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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.

Average, Great Men, Make, Man, Men

God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.

God, God Knows, Knows, Should, Thing

Now's the day and now's the hour.

Day, Hour, Inspirational, Life, Positive

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I move around a lot. Ive lived in a ton of different places - and only for a month or two at a time. I have a deep, rabid curiosity, so I like having a gypsy life.

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John Ray

To those we love best we say the least

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James Madison

But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm. . . But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity.

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I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.

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Bohumil Hrabal

Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqeur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.

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