Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

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What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. — Brian Tracy

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A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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Take it all back. Life is boring, except for flowers, sunshine, your perfect legs. A glass of cold water when you are really thirsty. The way bodies fit together. Fresh and young and sweet. Coffee in the morning. These are just moments. I struggle with the in-betweens. I just want to never stop loving like there is nothing else to do, because what else is there to do?

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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. ― William Shakespeare

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But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.

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Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

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Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow. ― William Shakespeare

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