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July 2, 2009 at 10:24 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , , , , )

Time has too much credit. I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

—Ivy Compton-Burnett

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June 23, 2009 at 4:55 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , , , )

Welcome, thou kind deceiver!

Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key,

Dost open life, and, unperceived by us,

Even steal us from ourselves.

—John Dryden

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June 8, 2009 at 5:59 pm (Day Quote) (, , , )

Summer has set in with its usual severity.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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June 6, 2009 at 9:59 am (Day Quote) (, , , , , )

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

—King Charles II

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June 5, 2009 at 8:57 am (Day Quote) (, , , , )

Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

—King Charles I

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June 4, 2009 at 4:14 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , , )

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,

One passion doth expel another still.

—George Chapman

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May 26, 2009 at 8:08 pm (Day Quote) (, , , )

His nonsense suits their nonsense.

—King Charles II

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May 24, 2009 at 3:04 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , , , , , )

Poor Catullus, drop your silly fancies, and what you see is lost let it be lost.

—Catullus

What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.

—Miguel De Cervantes

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May 23, 2009 at 1:19 pm (Day Quote) (, , , , , , , , , , )

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more; it is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

—Shakespeare

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May 22, 2009 at 8:49 am (Day Quote) (, , , )

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

—Jane Welsh Carlyle

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