Jean-Claude Juncker quotes
I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates
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I don't think Spain will need any kind of external support.
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Walter Scott quotes
I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.
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The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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Daphne Maurier quotes
Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.
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What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?
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Clive Lewis quotes
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
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Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.
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Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.
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Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs
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Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels.
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Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.
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How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.
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God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature.
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You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease actЂ'that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?
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