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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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Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else. ↗

— Mencius

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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. ↗

— Duane Michals

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Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. ↗

— Duane Michals

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What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? ↗

— Michelangelo

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I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint. ↗

— Michelangelo

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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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