#sence

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. ↗

— David Storey

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I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension. ↗

— Michael Landon

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

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I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

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When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. ↗

— George MacDonald

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The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy. ↗

— David Mamet

#philosophy

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. ↗

— Jose Marti

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