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"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
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"Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference."

"I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk."

"Be different to make a difference."

"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."

"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be."

"The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage."

"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."

"I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference."

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
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"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking."

"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment."

"Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night."

"Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins."

"Mysterious money had stood to him as the symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil. He had seemed to love it little in the years when every penny had its purpose for him; for he loved the purpose then. But now, when all purpose was gone, that habit of looking towards the money and grasping it with a sense of fulfilled effort made a loam that was deep enough for the seeds of desire."
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