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A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
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A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
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A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.
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A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
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A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
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A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
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A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth - either epileptic or dead.
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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
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A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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A time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... They should see the planets like our earth.
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A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
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A translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano.
The Believer Interview 20 oct 2016 -
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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