Teen Friends Poems & Random Quotes - 1

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Teen Friends Poems & Random Quotes - 1

Groucho Marx

I aughta join a club and beat you over the head with it.


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Gustave Flaubert, 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.


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Johann von Goethe

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.


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Anthony Brandt

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.


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Alexander Hamilton

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.


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Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"

... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.


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John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)

Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.


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John Ciardi

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.


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Benjamin Franklin

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.


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Robert Copeland

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.


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Ecclesiastes

Be not slow to visit the sick.


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C. G. Jung

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

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