Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
("Captain Corelli's Mandolin")
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He showed his daughter how to use cushions to vary his position and relieve the monotony of pressure that corrupts the flesh, but he made her leave the room for all those tasks which would normally fall to the lot of a woman, and which show the greatest love.Louis de Bernières
Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.
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History is the propaganda of the victors.
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The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.
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Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. You blush in each other's presence, you both hover in places where you expect the other to pass, you are both a little tongue-tied, you both laugh inexplicably and too long, you become quite nauseatingly girlish, and he becomes quite ridiculously gallant. You have also grown a little stupid.
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People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.
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