"Impropriety is the soul of wit."

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"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul, because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"The face is the soul of the body."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"I must get my soul back from you, I am killing my flesh without it."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"Soul mates may be linked, but fight to separate, causing wounds and confusion. They teach what no one else can."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it."

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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."

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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."

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"I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool."

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"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."

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"Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams."

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"Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other."

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