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“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”
Source : Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.304
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“What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it even to do some wonderful thing for God? Listen to me, beloved. The highest desire that can possess any human heart is a longing to see God.”
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“Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.”
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“This country cannot be the country we want it to be if its story is told by only one group of citizens. Our goal is to give all Americans front door access to the truth,”
Source : Robert C. Maynard, Dori J. Maynard (1995). “Letters to my children”, Andrews McMeel Pub
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“Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.”
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“Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.”
Source : Colleen McCullough (2015). “The Ladies of Missalonghi”, p.42, Head of Zeus
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“The more you judge, the less you love.”
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“In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.”
