"Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them."

-- Joseph Addison

“You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.”
“In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly”
“You will never be able to defend your city while shouting.”
“I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.”
“Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.”
“It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.”
“Everyday there are people in our world that do absolutely amazing things. People of all ages are very capable of doing tremendous, courageous things in spite of their fear.”
“As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.”

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