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How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down. ↗

— John Aubrey

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I have been in danger of being drowned twice. ↗

— John Aubrey

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The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men. ↗

— John Aubrey

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Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#eyebrow #heart #hoping #hottest #life

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#any #beauty #beginning #correction #doing

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music. ↗

— Randy Bachman

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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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