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The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

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If all the girls who attended the Harvard-Yale game were laid end to end, I wouldn't be surprised.

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

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Oh seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday Go take your damned tomorrow!

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Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

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That woman speaks eight languages and can't say "no" in any of them.

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His voice was a intimate as the rustle of sheets.

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

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Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; Drugs cause cramp; Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You may as well live.

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They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.

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I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

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Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.

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This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

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A poem is a little moment of belief

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Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moment that take your breath away.

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In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.

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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

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Don't be fooled my dear - angels are everywhere!

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I heard a voice inside my head and this is what it said...

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