"If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler."

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Henry David Thoreau

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“The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cozy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries.”

Source : 1908 The Wind in the Willows, ch.8.
“It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.”
“I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.”
“Snooki and Honey Boo Boo. These are big celebrities in the U.S. You want to throw up.”
“Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.”
“I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you.”

Source : "Brewer's Famous Quotations" by Nigel Rees, London: Cassell, (p. x), 1994.
“If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.”
“Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.”

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