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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. – George Bernard Shaw

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The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial. – Alban Goodier

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It is not a fragrant world. – Raymond Chandler

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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. – Ernest Hemingway

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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

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