#ness

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. ↗

— Andre Gide

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A face is too slight a foundation for happiness. ↗

— Mary Wortley

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There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. ↗

— Mary Wortley

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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. ↗

— Richard Wright

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The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business. ↗

— William Wycherley

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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness. ↗

— Edward Young

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As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life. ↗

— Loretta Young

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I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business. ↗

— Loretta Young

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A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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