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A day in April never came so sweet,
To show how costly summer was at hand,
As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord.
Shakespeare
anticipation | April | summer
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I will therefore ... that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or go ...
unknown author
women
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The lesson learned here is a costly one: If you stand up for your principles, follow the law, and win massively, you lose totally.
Linda J. Carpenter
sports | academia
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A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his ...
James Fenimore Cooper
royalty
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I want the necessity of supplying my own wants. All this costly culture of yours is not necessary. Greatness does not need it. Yon ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
individualism | greatness
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Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtues ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
pride
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Now the hand-painted image of a person is costly because the time of a well-trained artist is required to make it. The time spent ...
Edmund Burke Feldman
photography | painters and painting
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The City of New York is currently undergoing a grave experiment that affects the comfort and, on occasion, the safety of even the ...
John Kenneth Galbraith
New York City
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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. T ...
Ernest Hemingway
learning
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You should hurry up ... and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so muc ...
Aldous Huxley
love | habits | hedonism
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