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• We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

  James Boswell
  Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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• What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte - there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of.

  Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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• What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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• When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.

  Caleb Cushing
  American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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• Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.

  Albert Gray
   
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• A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

  Henry Ward Beecher
  American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• propagation
• oppressions
• parliaments
• peculiarly
• reputation
• liberties

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