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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they wh

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. – Henry David Thoreau

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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem. – G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, “The Glory of Grey”

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Women are made to be loved, not understood. – Oscar Wilde

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Its always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, youre seeing the most beautiful thing on Gods Earth. – Keanu Reeves

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On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You cant see the person for all the clutter. – Julie Andrews

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Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large dont try to trip you up… they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do… if theyve loved a story they love to know how it started. – Michael Morpurgo

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I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles. – Geoff Hoon

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Dont agonize. Organize. – Florynce R. Kennedy

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Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money. – Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851

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