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Quote by Jean Paul
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. – Jean Paul

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. – Jean Paul

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. – Jean Paul

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To the loved ones with snowy crowns, I bequeath the happiness of old age, the love and gratitude of their children until they fall asleep. – Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Williston Fish

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man –and after that, praying. – Proverb

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The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in. – Wim Wenders

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Ive lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point. – Liz Phair

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As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived. – Daniel Morgan

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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. – Ambrose Bierce

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Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center. – Paul Wolfowitz

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He felt it, he said, an honor to wash his face, being, as it was, the temple of the Spirit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838 journal, about Jones Very

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