Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realizati

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. – Homer

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There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them. – John B. Gough

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Thats what show business is, sincere insincerity. – Benny Hill

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It is true of most human beings that if they had no physical body, they would still have an identifying scar. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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