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''Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.'.. Thomas More
'Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.'.. Alan Bennett
'A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things'.. GK Chesterton
'There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.'.. Charles Kingsley
'If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.'.. Charles Dickens
'Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.'.. Adam Smith
'All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.'.. Thomas Carlyle
'It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.'.. Stirling Moss
'It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.'.. John Ruskin
'Catholics are just protestants protesting against protestantism'.. D H Lawrence
'Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy'.. Margaret Thatcher
'Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.'.. John Wesley
'Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.'.. Brian Aldiss
'I have nothing to declare except my genuis.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.'.. George Best
'There is always time for failure.'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.'.. John Donne
'People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy'.. Oliver Goldsmith
'I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.'.. Charlie Chaplin
'It is only the dull who like practical jokes'.. Oscar Wilde
'He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them'.. Samuel Johnson
'A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.'.. Ben Jonson
'Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.'.. John Locke
'Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.'.. Sir Francis Bacon
'All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.'.. Daniel Defoe
'But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses'.. Jerome K Jerome
'We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.'.. Edward Heath
'A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice'.. GK Chesterton