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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a ba... JACKSON BROWNE There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job ba...
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A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women. 
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Theirs not to reason why, 
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. 
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To thought and impulse whil... 
Tis better to have loved and lost
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. 
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