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The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.


Nicholas Boileau

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NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX A fop sometimes gives important advice. [Fr., Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important.]
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NICHOLAS SPARKS Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?
NICHOLAS SPARKS You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS i'm sorry she never got her miracle.
she did get her miracle, Landon, her miracle was you.
NICHOLAS SPARKS There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can hap...
NICHOLAS SPARKS It wasn't that long, and it certainly wasn't the kind of kiss you see in movies these days, but it w...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Do you love me?' I asked her. She smiled. 'Yes.' 'Do you want me to be happy?' as I asked her this I...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfe...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.
NICHOLAS SPARKS I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a commo...
NICHOLAS SPARKS No, it's not that. It's not what you're thinking. I was serious when I said 'all of it'. I can remem...
NICHOLAS SPARKS What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?
NICHOLAS SPARKS You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would li...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch...
NICHOLAS SPARKS An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as h...
NICHOLAS SPARKS A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means tha...
NICHOLAS SPARKS My Dearest Allie. I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitt...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Noah: "You wanna dance with me?"
Allie: "Sure. Now?"
Noah: "Mmm Hmm"
Allie: "You're n...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or may...
NICHOLAS SPARKS If you're a bird... I'm a bird...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my ow...
NICHOLAS SPARKS In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. Wh...
NICHOLAS SPARKS We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't kno...
NICHOLAS SPARKS My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard y...
NICHOLAS SPARKS We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created....
NICHOLAS SPARKS I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've eve...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You are, and always have been, my dream.
NICHOLAS SPARKS It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.
NICHOLAS SPARKS It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you rea...
NICHOLAS SPARKS A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter an...
NICHOLAS HILLIARD Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
NICHOLAS LING Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
NICHOLAS BRETON What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you hav...
NICHOLAS DEWOLF Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,
Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behind,
Wit...
NICHOLAS ROWE Steps are what you take when you think you have forever.
NICHOLAS LORE