This marriage had resulted from impulse: he had seen her on a high-flying swing at Tsarkoe Selo and her skirt, flared by the breeze, had exposed her ankles; he had proposed the following day.

Robert K. Massie

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Amar es ponerse al cuello el nudo corredizo de la ilusión; adorar a alguien mientras pareces asfixiarte. Pero incluso el amor no correspondido, el amor fugaz, es mejor que nada.

Susan Vreeland

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if you want it really, you get it !!!

Ravinder Singh

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Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn

Jo Ann Butler

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Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy

Evan Thomas

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You must value something highly to go to war to improve it

Deborah Laake

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...she herself loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. "I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know.

Carol Shields

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People are complicated,” she said. “Didn’t they teach you that in biography school?

Frederick Weisel

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I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

Benjamin Franklin

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We had a teacher called Fanny Menlove, and I remember once when she was out of the room Nancy went up to the blackboard and wrote it backward - Menlove Fanny - and we all fell around laughing. She got into big trouble, but she didn't seem to mind. She had no fear.

Peter FitzSimons

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