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"In entirety, valentine is a FUCKING DAY, rather than the sanctity of its literal meaning."
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"It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter."
"A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives."
"Sometimes Alton Darwin would talk to me about the planet he was on before he was transported in a steel box to Athena. 'Drugs were food,' he said. 'I was in the food business. Just because people on one planet eat a certain kind of food they're hungry for, that makes them feel better after they eat it, that doesn't mean people on other planets shouldn't eat something else. On some planets I'm sure there are people who eat stones, and then feel wonderful for a little while afterwords. Then it's time to eat stones again."
"Witchcraft had once been widely used before cursed by the society. I see today the society presumes technology will have a different treatment."
"Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident of human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech."
"The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose - and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization."
"Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square."
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"You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons."
"There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former."
"Don't let people supervise your life, If you know who you are, you shouldn't be living in that prison of dominance, live by your orders, you are your own soldier."
"Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul."
"Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs."
"The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books."
"Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you'll be set free forever."
"The only difference between you and the star is that you shine below, and the other shines above: Wherever you are located, You are a star!"
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