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Quote by Virginia Woolf
But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. – Virginia Woolf

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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. – Virginia Woolf

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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

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Past
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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. – Virginia Woolf

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You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate. – Logan Pearsall Smith

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Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. – Mark Twain, 1907, letter to Harriet E. Whitmore

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The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. – Henrik Ibsen

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Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions. – George Santayana

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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. – Elia Kazan

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Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by mans own will. – Thomas Aquinas

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With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got. – George W. Bush

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One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy cant go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, thats gone to oil! – Terry McAuliffe

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