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A womans whole life is a history of the affections. - Washington I

A womans whole life is a history of the affections. – Washington Irving

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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift ones position, and be bruised in a new place. – Washington Irving

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Change
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. – Washington Irving

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Home
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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant. – Washington Irving

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Humor
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world – and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East – is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isnt there. It has to do with history. – P. J. ORourke

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History

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. – Arnold J. Toynbee

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History

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? – Carl Jung

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History

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart. – George Michael

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History

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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. – Alexander Pope

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China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it. – Malcolm Turnbull

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Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. – Thomas Jefferson, letter, 1796

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