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There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. ↗

— Emma Goldman

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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate. ↗

— Gale Gordon

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But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun. ↗

— Heather Graham

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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle. ↗

— Martha Graham

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All this is only for the mice and myself to admire! ↗

— Catherine the Great

#mice #myself #only

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

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