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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the s

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. – Samuel Butler

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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? – Samuel Butler

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I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death. – Leo Burnett

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It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. – Anna Akhmatova

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. – Stendhal

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