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The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend "We are not amused" hanging from it.

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Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.

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It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words.

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Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.

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Illness Quote

It is not that you become soft [from illness] so much as that the world you live in expands and your awareness of it is enormously enlarged.

- Norman Washington Manley

Wisdom Quote

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

Inspirational Quote

Everything you can imagine is real.

- Pablo Picasso

Funny Quote

Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.

- G. K. Chesterton

Marriage Quote

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

- Marilyn Monroe

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