All contradictions may be found in me...bashful, insolent; chaste,
lascivious; talkative, taciturn; tough, delicate; clever, stupid;
surly, affable; lying, truthful; learned, ignorant; liberal,
miserly and prodigal: all of this I see in myself to some extent
according to how I turn...I have nothing to say about myself
absolutely, simply and solidly, without concusion and without
mixture, or in one word.
-- Montaigne
lascivious; talkative, taciturn; tough, delicate; clever, stupid;
surly, affable; lying, truthful; learned, ignorant; liberal,
miserly and prodigal: all of this I see in myself to some extent
according to how I turn...I have nothing to say about myself
absolutely, simply and solidly, without concusion and without
mixture, or in one word.
-- Montaigne
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While much of magic is gaudy, noisy, and easily appreciated... - I often have long conversations all by myself,
and I am so clever that sometimes
I don't understand a single word I am saying.
Oscar... - I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradictions to the sentiments of
others,
and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbade... - You give me space to belong to myself yet without separating me
from your own life.
May it all turn out to your happiness. -- Johann Wolfgang... - You give me space to belong to myself yet without separating me
from your own life.
May it all turn out to your happiness. --... - As I have said often enough before, I never repeat myself,
and so it almost goes without saying that I won't... - All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how
to be I learned in kindergarten.
Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word... - When I think about myself,
I almost laugh myself to death,
My life has been one great big joke, Sixty years in...
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That probulator sure knows how to please a man... - Who that hath ever been
Could bear to be no more?
Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through... - A gourmet thinking calories is a tart looking at a
clock... - Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,
but the parent of all the others. --... - She floats upon the river of his thoughts.
-- Henry W.
Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Spanish Student, Act...
