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Quote by Matthew Arnold
Cruel, but composed and bland,Dumb, inscrutable and grand,

Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat. – Matthew Arnold

Other quotes by Matthew Arnold

People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style. – Matthew Arnold

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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will. – Matthew Arnold

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Memory
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The best kind of alarm clock is the purring kind. – Terri Guillemets

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The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity. – Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. – Arab Proverb

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It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens. – Cynthia E. Varnado

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life. – Gelett Burgess

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Whats really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They dont even really understand that equality hasnt happened with the pay force. – Bell Hooks

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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit – this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. – Johann von Goethe

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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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