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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

Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled. – Matthew Arnold

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Belief
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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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There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten. – Jules Champfleury

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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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Cats

Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously. – Louis J. Camuti

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Cats

A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal. – Agnes Repplier

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War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times. – Henry Rollins

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When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? Thats why you have a radiator in your car in the first place. – Wilson Greatbatch

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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods, “Economy” #infj

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Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not. – Stanley Fish

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