"I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."

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"I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."

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"Tis not too late to seek a newer world."

Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet

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"The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place."

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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

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"If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft."

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"It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more."

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"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"

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"It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say."

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"Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures."

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"The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected."

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"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."

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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

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"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."

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"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

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"Sir a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all."

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"It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness."

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"For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."

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"It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see."

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