The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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He met her with a careless air,As though he'd ceased to find her fair,
And said: "True love is dust to me;
I cannot kiss: I tire of thee!
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Lifes Little Ironies.
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There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct -- not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.
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A local cult called Christianity.
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This horrible stone entity was fashioned as if covered with a wrinkled hide it had short, erect ears, eyes starting from their sockets, and its fingers and hands were seizing the corners of its mouth, which they thus seemed to pull open to give free passage to the water it vomited.
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I prefer the large intention of an unskillful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
Thomas Hardy
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