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«Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.»
Author: Mark Overby
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About:
Beauty,
Defense,
Love
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Keywords:
beautiful,
blood,
blooded,
but,
calm,
calmed,
calmer,
calmest,
calming,
calms,
defense,
draw,
draw in,
draw up,
How to draw,
is,
ITS,
i drew,
like,
love,
much,
rose,
wild,
Wilder,
wilds,
willing
«Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent it from coming back.»
Author: Nigerian Proverb
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About:
Love,
silly
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Keywords:
away,
back,
backed up,
backing,
back away,
back out,
back to back,
coming,
comings,
coming back,
do away with,
even,
evens,
even out,
even up,
from way back,
have,
ITS,
like,
love,
not,
On Our Backs,
prevent,
pushed,
push away,
push back,
push on,
push up,
seaweed,
take back,
this evening,
will
«Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.»
«The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.»
Author: Buddha
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Keywords:
blood,
blooded,
drawing,
draw in,
draw up,
How to draw,
i drew,
kills,
knife,
knifes,
like,
sharp,
sharps,
sharp tongue,
The Killing,
tongue,
tongued
«No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(
Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
all told,
ever,
fear,
felt,
grief,
like,
No One,
tell on,
The Telling,
told
«The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Health
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Keywords:
Do,
drink,
drink up,
eat,
eaten up,
eat in,
eat into,
eat on,
eat out,
Eat This,
for keeps,
health,
it Ate,
keep,
kept up,
like,
only,
rather,
want,
way,
WHAT
«The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Happiness,
Marriage,
Suspicion
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Keywords:
anything,
get a look,
grown,
happily,
has,
have a look,
life,
like,
looks,
look out on,
look up to,
married,
suspicious,
take a look,
the world,
world
«Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Excess,
Funny,
Moderation,
Success
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Keywords:
excess,
fatal,
is a,
like,
moderation,
nothing,
succeeds,
thing,
with moderation
«The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
bad,
fact,
fallen,
falling out,
Fall of Man,
fall over,
fall through,
fall under,
give,
habit,
into,
in a bad way,
is not,
lately,
like,
like it,
men,
quite,
quite an,
should,
The Fall of Man,
thinking,
womanly
«Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(
Author,
Orator,
Prime Minister)
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Keywords:
although,
always,
being,
Do,
done up,
Get Ready,
learn,
like,
not,
personally,
readiest,
ready,
readying,
taught