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Classic Quotes by William Morris (1834-1896) English poet, artist, craftsman, designer, social reformer, and printe
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

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If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

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Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.

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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

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With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.

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"Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk."- Andy Gibb

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It was brief, swift, and then it was done. It was a professional job. I needed to be kissed, and I was kissed.
Actress Uma Thurman

This girl said "Yes" when I wasn't ready. I kissed her lightly and got so dizzy I had to sit down.
Actor Antonio Banberas

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
Eduardo Galeano

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
Helen Rowland

The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.
Henry Louis Mencken

If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.

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Classic Quotes by Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) American author

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

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Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

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"Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be; the last
of life for which the first was made."

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"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we
will not know them because we hate them."

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

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By Croft M. Pentz
We may disagree, but let’s not be disagreeable.

Some feel courtesy is a man offering his seat to a woman after he gets off the bus.

A little oil of courtesy will save a lot of friction.

Courtesy should be in the curriculum of every Christian.

Some people need solitary refinement.

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When you put faith, hope and love together you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

Zig Ziglar