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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
true-beauty skins beauty-is-only-skin-deep
Beauty is more than skin deep. Charlize Theron
true-beauty romeo-and-juliet-love use
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. William Shakespeare
true-beauty utility
Thou shalt learn The wisdom early to discern True beauty in utility. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
true-beauty
True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it. Francine Rivers
true-beauty
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys. Yukio Mishima
true-beauty virtue
Virtue only is the true beauty. Samuel Richardson
puff work
I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces. Amanda Fuller
puff littles peter
I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves. Busy Philipps
puff spirit sail
Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff. Annie Dillard
puff hitchhiking logic
Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. Douglas Adams
puff sin reason
One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake. Billy Sunday
puff bikinis thongs
It feels like I could go outside with a bikini thong on right now. Puff Daddy
puff peppers flattery
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. Oliver Goldsmith
puff stories outcomes
The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. ...at the end there has to be the literary equivalent of the magician's puff of smoke, an outcome that is both startling and anticipated. Louis Menand