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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Great

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. People dance at any age.
  • 2. If you age with somebody you go through so many roles – you're lovers friends enemies colleagues strangers you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is if you're with your soulmate.
  • 3. With age you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

2 Amazing

  • 1. We used to go to Studio 54 – an amazing place.
  • 2. Southern California they have been amazing. They're totally with us.
  • 3. It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

3 Anger

  • 1. In plain terms a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood there's an anger.
  • 2. Anger is never without an argument but seldom with a good one.
  • 3. Anger elicits anger fear elicits fear no matter how well meaning we may be.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.
  • 2. Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
  • 3. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture is my work and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
  • 2. Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
  • 3. Architecture is not an inspirational business it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.
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