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Quote by Gilbert Murray
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. – Gilbert Murray

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The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece. – Gilbert Murray

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Imagination
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Gilbert Murray
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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. – Gilbert Murray

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Poetry
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Gilbert Murray
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I dont know the true meaning of happiness. – Jonathan Davis

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Im interested in the dark side of man. Im interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness. – Elizabeth George

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. – John Mason Brown

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The future is called “perhaps,” which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. – Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957

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Smiles are the language of love. – David Hare

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You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you dont truly love – you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever. – Piper Perabo

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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. – Lord Byron

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