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Augustine Birrell

"Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm." Augustine Birrell
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Henry Ward Beecher

"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise." Henry Ward Beecher
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"I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it." Anthony Trollope
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"Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy." Dean Inge
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"What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow." A. Milne
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"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored." Evelyn Waugh
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"Tiggers don't like honey." A. Milne
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"Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?" A. Milne
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Walter Bagehot

"What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind." Walter Bagehot
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"Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being." A. Milne
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"His modesty amounts to deformity." Margot Asquith
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"The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature." Margot Asquith
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"Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject." A. Milne
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Terry Pratchett

"You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look." Terry Pratchett
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"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them." A. Milne
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"With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species." Anthony Storr
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Walter Bagehot

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." Walter Bagehot
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H. G. Wells

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow." H. G. Wells
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"Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad." A. Milne
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"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you." A. Milne
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Terry Pratchett

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." Terry Pratchett
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Audrey Hepburn
Birth: 1929-05-04 Death: 1993-01-20

"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."

Born in 1929, Audrey almost pursued a career in ballet instead of acting. During World War II, it was said that she danced to raise money for the underground movement. While filming Secret People in 1952, director William Wyler spotted her and believed she'd be perfect for the part of the English princess opposite Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday. It was her breakout performance, for which she won an Oscar. She went on to become one of Hollywood's biggest stars. Her beauty, elegance, charm and humor captivated audiences as well as the actors playing opposite her, leading Cary Grant to onc…



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