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  -- Hannah More (1745-1833) -- Florio, Part i...
• It did not occur to me that my being with two men continuously would interest anyone or arouse anyone's misgivings.
  I asked for an invitation for Heinrich too, as often as it seemed possible, when Paulus and I were invited to a social gathering....
• The only promotion rules I can think of are that a sense of shame is to be avoided at all costs and there is never any reason for a hustler to be less cunning than more virtuous men.
  Oh yes ... whenever you think you've got something really great, add ten per cent more....
• I don't believe there really IS a GAS SHORTAGE.. I think it's all just a BIG HOAX on the part of the plastic sign salesmen -- to sell more numbers!
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• Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
  -- Hannah More...
• I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
  -- John Burrough...
• No matter how complicated you think it is, it's still more complicated. -- Joel