"By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing."

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"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

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"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Nothing is so aggravating than calmness."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise."

George Washington Carver, American Scientist

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"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person."

Michael Palin, British Comedian

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"Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread."

Charles Nicole, French Scientist

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