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• We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Destiny, Suffering, Dies

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• The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Sea, Tree

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.55

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• Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.

  Bette Davis

  Sex, Inability, Three

  Bette Davis (2017). “This 'n That”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

  John Green

  People, House, United States

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• In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

  Mary Oliver

  Fire, Ability To Love, Given

  Mary Oliver (2000). “Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Doors, Long

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• It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.

  John Ruskin

  Character, Bears, Architecture

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.94

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• Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

  Betty Smith

  People, Quarrels

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• Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.

  Ayn Rand

  Civilization, Tea, Mystery Novels

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.307, Penguin

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• Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.

  Simone Weil

  Intimate Conversation, Names, Church

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.19, Routledge

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• Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Deny

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.151, Routledge

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• I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.

  Jane Wagner

  Distance, Parent, May

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• If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!

  Maria Montessori

  Dog, Challenges, Ankles

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a world that tells us that there are only two important things. One is the acquisition of goods and the other is either the acquisition or avoidance of sex, but it turns out that the question of who's a virgin and who's a virgout is not the most interesting question.

  John Green

  Sex, Interesting, Important

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• There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.

  Red Skelton

  Memories, Humorous, Loss

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• [Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?

  Agnes Repplier

  Punctuation Marks, Eight, Nephew

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• The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Sea, Rose

  Gustave Flaubert, Arthur Sydney McDowall (2004). “Three Tales”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Knowledge, People, Prejudice

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.667, Library of America

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• every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself he suddenly gets the melody and the burst of feeling of a great symphony without any external stimuli.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Artist, Symphony, Feelings

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• I learned two things growing up in Texas. 1: God loves you, and you're going to burn in hell forever. 2: Sex is the dirtiest and most dangerous thing you can possibly do, so save it for someone you love.

  Molly Ivins

  Sex, Growing Up, Love You

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• Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.

  Shana Alexander

  Fashion, Song, Art

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• I don't think it's natural for two people to swear to be together for the rest of their lives.

  Jane Fonda

  Marriage, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity.

  Matthew Arnold

  Spiritual, Men, Law

  Matthew Arnold (1875). “Essays in Criticism”, p.128, London : [s.n.]

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• Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

  Madame de Stael

  Diversity, Mind, Murder

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• There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.

  Madame de Stael

  Class, People, Earth

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