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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about age, olderness, power, sex, things

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about gifts, name, things

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about bad

Exhausted sunset I have seen Reality trailing its changing shadow behind: blue nebulae crouching in the corner of your eye an exhausted sunset pinning down a patch of sky - of course, I’m trying to explain all this to you, especially...

OQuote by Otilia Nicolescu about poetry, angels, shadow, smile, sky, reality, world, contentment

All languages and secrets and all sciences are nothing without love, which is generous, patient, passive, harmless, unwilling of honors, endures everything, believes in everyone, always is hoping and is defeating.

Quote by Henryk Sienkiewicz about nothing, love

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