"It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste."

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"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."

William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist

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"Make your paradise here on earth, your own little paradise."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise."

Christopher Columbus, Italian Explorer

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"Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none."

Doug Larson, American Cartoonist

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"The best way to earn paradise in the afterlife is to create it in your life and in the life of your neighbor."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out."

Jean Paul, German Author

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"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape."

John Lancaster Spalding, American Bishop

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"Your library is your paradise."

Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch Philosopher

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"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better."

Laurie Anderson, American Musician

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"He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich."

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"Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom."

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"I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners."

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"There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief."

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"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."

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"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."

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"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."

"Make your paradise here on earth, your own little paradise."

"Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise."

"Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none."

"The best way to earn paradise in the afterlife is to create it in your life and in the life of your neighbor."

"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."

"Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out."

"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape."

"Your library is your paradise."

"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better."

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"He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich."

"Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom."

"I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners."

"There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief."

"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."

"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."

"Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now."

"Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth."

"What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?"

"I put the words down and push them a bit."