![The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-disinterest-of-my-two-great-aunts-in-anything-that-had-to-do-with-high-soci.jpg)
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My children are as at home in the Port Elgin library as I used to be, and they've sat in the cinema seats where I sat with their aunt every Saturday afternoon, watching the matinee movies. Susanna Kearsley
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Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. C. S. Lewis
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I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.
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When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two. Cecelia Ahern
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I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out. Carrie Fisher
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There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.
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Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body, feelings and intellect, would be obliterated. Carl Rogers
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First rule in government spending: Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price?
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Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.
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The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears. Carl Maria von Weber
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If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.
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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering? Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends. Bertrand Russell
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Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will. William Shakespeare
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Why use them? Why show them? We have had enough suffering and we don't want any more.
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