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The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself. – Peter Abelard

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It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth. – Peter Abelard

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The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. – Peter Abelard

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So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall. – Henry Vaughan

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Holidays

Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through. – Angela Carter

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The only thing bad about a holiday is it is followed by a non-holiday. – Anon.

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Lucy: Beethovens birthday is December 16th Shermy! Have you decided what youre going to get me?
Shermy: Yes! Im not going to get you anything!
Lucy: What kind of a holiday is it where you dont give girls presents? – Charles Monroe Schulz

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. – Thomas Sowell

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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. – George Orwell, “Why I Write,” 1947 (Thanks, Jennifer)

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Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes. – Eric Gurney

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