It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.


P.G. Wodehouse

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PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
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EPITAPH
A woman in love is her most lovely. A relationship end does not change that unless she lets it.
SUZETTE R. HINTON
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FULTON J. SHEEN
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PERICLES
Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not ea...
PERICLES
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You've got to have somebody there that lets them know that you care about them. And she did.
SUE MURPHY
Those are brave men... lets go kill them
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
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Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last
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But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never mad...
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They don't have the root system to pull them through. Trees and shrubs and older plants can push out...
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SENECA
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He sneered at his father. “He’ll live. I’m going after her.”
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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Even when apologising, this guy turns on the charm. And the worst thing is that it works.
She h...
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A lengthy and painful discussion followed. It lasted through tea and dinner. It was revealed to Lady...
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Besides her family, the only other permanent part of her life was with her friends online. She could...
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Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
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I make a bad mom, but I can pull off a crazy aunt.
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I wish she had half a clue what seeing that happy face does for me. I can't quite explain it to myse...
MELYSSA WINCHESTER
Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.
MME. RICCOBONI
Self-centered people often get angry when someone tells them no.

Stan said yes out of fea...
HENRY CLOUD
Every wall is climbable
SOTONYE ANGA
One of them has to break,” the queen said to the princess. “Only then can it begin.”

SARAH J. MAAS
Strong men cry. Stronger men cry or laugh with them.
BRENT M. JONES
Wise men read books about history. Strong men write them.
PIERCE BROWN
It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses contr...
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A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back
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from I Knew a Woman

I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small...
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Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ...
MARGARET MITCHELL
I don't see how she couldn't wake up and hear them messing her house up and stuff.
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Sympathizing over the behavior of men is the baking soda of women's friendships, it seems,the thing ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
So often they made her think of the phrase “Blood is thicker than water,” because at times blood...
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P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up ...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE
My only objection to the custom of giving books as Christmas presents is perhaps the selfish one tha...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE
Golf...is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge th...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE
Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is f...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE
Flowers are happy things.
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE
It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and t...
P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE