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Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

quote by Rosa Luxemburg
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Spend words as efficiently as money.

Japanese proverbs
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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

quote by William Butler Yeats
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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

quote by Ed Cole
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Blaspheming is praying backwards.

aphorism by Ramon Eder, translated by Dan Costinaş
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I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.

Jonathan Swift in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation (1738)
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All Spaniards, we discovered, knew two English expressions. One was "OK, baby", the other was a word used by the Barcelona whores in their dealings with English sailors, and I am afraid the compositors would not print it.

George Orwell in Homage to Catalonia (1938)
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Down by the Salley Gardens

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

poem by William Butler Yeats from The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889)
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