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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

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Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up

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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up.

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Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

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I know why the caged bird sings.

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Success… Is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it.

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You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.

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What is art? Prostitution.

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I'm tired of Love I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time.

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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

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Keep our Empire undismembered guide our Forces by Thy Hand, gallant blacks from far Jamaica, Honduras and Togoland; protect them Lord in all their fights, and even more, protect the whites.

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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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Only the shallow know themselves.

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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

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Pardon, my Mother Church, if I consent That Angels led him when from thee he went,...

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Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.

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Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

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