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people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything. Charles Dickens
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. Charles Dickens
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon. Charles Dickens
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own Charles Dickens
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
picnics
The Dionysian is no picnic. Camille Paglia
picnics life-is
Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic. Jane Wagner
picnics depth unemployment
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic. Barry Eichengreen
picnics certain amount
As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times. Elaine Stritch
picnics were-not-meant-to-be caterpillars
I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts! Phyllis Bottome
picnics ends
Like the end of a picnic, all the weenies will be roasted. Kim Harrison
picnics life-is examined-life
The examined life is no picnic. Robert Fulghum
picnics life-is precipice
Life is a picnic on a precipice. W. H. Auden