#less

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. ↗

— Arthur Miller

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Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two. ↗

— Maria Monk

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I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless. ↗

— Pras Michel

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My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. ↗

— Michelangelo

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