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August 10, 2009 at 8:50 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , )

All sorrows can be borne, if you put them into a story.

—Isak Dinesen

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August 8, 2009 at 10:40 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , , )

“It’s always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.”

“But suppose there are two mobs?” suggested Mr. Snodgrass.

“Shout with the largest,” replied Mr. Pickwick.

—Charles Dickens

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August 6, 2009 at 9:01 am (Day Quote) (, , , , , , , , )

It’s over, and can’t be helped, and that’s one consolation, as they always says in Turkey, ven they cuts the wrong man’s head off.

—Charles Dickens

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August 5, 2009 at 7:49 am (Day Quote) (, , , , , , , , , , , )

The best of men cannot suspend their fate:

The good die early, and the bad die late.

—Daniel Defoe

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August 4, 2009 at 4:48 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , , , , , , , , )

Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been

To public feasts where meet a public rout,

Where they that are without would fain go in

And they that are within would fain go out.

—Sir John Davies

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August 2, 2009 at 11:28 am (Day Quote) (, , , , , , , )

Come in the evening, or come in the morning,

Come when you’re looked for, or come without warning.

—Thomas Davis

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August 2, 2009 at 10:06 am (Day Quote) (, , , , , )

We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence.

—Charles Darwin

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July 31, 2009 at 6:34 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , , , , , )

But years hath done this wrong,

To make me write too much, and live too long.

—Samuel Daniel

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July 30, 2009 at 5:08 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , , , )

Love warps the mind a little from the right.

—George Crabbe

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July 28, 2009 at 1:06 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , , )

Careless she is with artful care,

Affecting to seem unaffected.

—William Congreve

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