She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover. ~Sabrina Jeffries
#quotes #sabrina-jeffries #love

I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
#quotes #gordon-waller #personality

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. ~Ryan White
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time, they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn. ~Thomas Friedman
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
#quotes #albert-schweitzer #nature #environment

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
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A ring on a good woman's finger is no good without a blouse on her back. ~Irish Proverb
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say, fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. ~Loren Eiseley
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If you were to open up a baby's head, and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should; you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent. ~Pat Benatar
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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Better wear out shoes than sheets. ~Scottish Proverb
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In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington; today it is 1 in 4. ~John Ensign
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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God bless us everyone! Said Tiny Tim, the last of all. ~Charles Dickens
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