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Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.
Topic: Affliction
Author: Book Of Common Prayer
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Walter Bagehot
She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Topic: Ships
Author: Lord Byron
Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends.
Topic: Society
Author: Woody Allen
The February born will find Sincerity and peace of mind; Freedom from passion and from care, If they the Pearl will wear.
Topic: Pearls
Author: Unattributed Author
I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.
Topic: Imagination
Author: Terry Prachett
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
Topic: Nature
Author: William Manchester
The wallet of the timid man neither increases nor decreases.
Topic: Timidity
Author: Maltese Proverb
Next these learn'd Jonson in this list I bring Who had drunk deep of the Pierian Spring.
Topic: Learning
Author: Michael Drayton
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
Topic: Death Immortality
Author: Richard Bach
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.
Topic: Courage
Author: La Rochefoucauld
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Topic: Originality
Author: Dean Inge
Direct The clasping ivy where to climb.
Topic: Ivy
Author: John Milton
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
Topic: Truth
Author: Kahlil Gibran
There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Topic: Friendship
Author: Mignon Mclaughlin