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Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat. - Arthur Hugh Clough 'The Latest Decalogue' Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris. It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt. - Tacitus Aricola,
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She was shivering from the cold, and from her deep-seated fear of having to live a broken and lonely life like this for the rest of her days. So stunted were her emotions, though, that even now, at her lowest ebb, it did not occur to her to cry. Crying had never gained Lily anything, even as a baby it had never brought her mother to her side, and so she did not understand that to most girls of her age it was a powerful weapon to be used, wa..
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Walking away was easy, it was staying around and sorting out your own shit that took guts, that made you a man.
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Young Pat Junior was a handful, and he loved him with all his heart. He was his father's son all right; he only hoped that he didn't have anything of his paternal grandfather inside him.
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Real life was not what everyone thought it was.
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People only know what you tell them. Well, if you didn't tell them anything then you were safe.
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J.K. Rowling's and Terry Pratchett's. He liked to lose himself in fantasies where people always solved their problems, made sure that right was done and evil cast aside. If only life was that simple.
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No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. - William Shakespeare Richard III (Act I, scene ii) Protection is not a principle but an expedient. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
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His mother had always said, 'We are all guilty of something even if it is only laziness or ignorance.' He had never understood what she meant till now.
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What goes around comes around. How true those words were.
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It was like the old riddle: How did the man get out of the room with no windows and no doors? Well, the answer was: The same way he got in there.
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But what he really liked about Marie Carter was her quietness. She had a quiet voice and a quiet nature.
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Every person who was hurt was only hurting because they loved someone.
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People only do to you what you let them.
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find a positive instead of a negative, and you will find your life is much easier to bear.
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find a positive instead of a negative, and you will find your life is much easier to bear. The
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She glanced at the mobile phone on the night table and noted that it was still turned off. She decided she didn't want to hear from Maisie again. She would throw the bloody thing away. She didn't like them anyway. They were intrusive and made you accessible twenty-four hours a day. Didn't people feel they wanted any peace any more, on call twenty-four seven? She found it almost Orwellian. No one seemed to have any privacy. CCTV cameras ever..
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It's not what happens to you but how you deal with it.
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They weren't a bad family. At least they loved one another, cared for one another. Most of the time anyway.
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old Irish adage, people only know what you tell them.
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she looked at her kids and felt the swell of pride she always did when she saw them en masse. When they were all happy in each other's company it made it all seem worthwhile.
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It was funny, but even though the kids lived their own lives and she was useless in her efforts to help them any more, she still couldn't sleep until they were all in. Safe and sound.
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regrets were a waste of time.
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The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge Ezekiel 18:2
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She is in every flower you see and every butterfly and in the clouds and in the trees.
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Everyone knew women were far more ruthless than men. Men got mad and women got even, there was a big difference.
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Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.' - Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, 1853-1917 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. - Revelation, 22:15
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Non Omnis Moriar. I shall not altogether die. Horace (65 BC-8 BC)
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What goes around comes around.
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surviving. One day she will have good times, another day bad times. It's called real life and she will have to get used to it.' Kevin hugged her.
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Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. - Galatians, 6:7 He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath. - William Shakespeare King Lear (Act III, scene vi)
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It was there to be used because time past could never be regained. And time did pass, excruciatingly slowly at times but it did pass, and you could let it pass you by or use it to your own benefit.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.' - Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804 'He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.' - Proverbs, 28:20 'Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!' - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
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ain't learned much, but one thing I have learned is this: everyone wants to fuck you, girl, either physically or mentally. You have to put a limit on the shit you're willing to take and no turning back.
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Something good always came out of tragedy. He had heard that many times and now he knew it was true. God had given him a second chance at life and he was going to grab it with both hands.
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If a man can't give you more than you can give yourself, then dump him.
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As my mum used to say, be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.
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You must look out for number one. If you don't, no one else will.
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No one, no matter who they are, is above common courtesy. Remember that,
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In trouble to be troubled is to have your trouble doubled.' - The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe, c. 1659-1661
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Every man I've ever known has had an angle, some way of using women. With me mum's blokes it was the obvious - I mean, she was a brass. Most used her for her money or her body. Mostly her money. They lived off her, you know.
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Who was it who once said: 'Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer still'? An astute man whoever he was,
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I'm a great believer in anything that gets anyone reading . .
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His soft voice was his trademark and he had a saying: You can do more with a soft voice than a big stick.
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