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Virginia Woolf quote: "Let us turn over the pages, and I will add, for your..."
Let us turn over the pages, and I will add, for your amusement, a comment in the margin. Virginia Woolf
I was waiting for my body receipt when Morelli walked in. He nodded to Ranger and grinned at me in my whiteness. “I was at my desk, and Mickey told me I had to come out to take a look,” Morelli said. “It’s floor,” I told him. “I can see that. If we add some milk and eggs, we can turn you into a cake. Janet Evanovich
With a writer's eye, Irving detected Jackson's depths. "As his admirers say, he is truly an old Roman-to which I would add, with a little dash of the Greek; for I suspect he is as knowing as I believe he is honest. Jon Meacham
Gerald Durrell quote: "They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown..."
They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something. Gerald Durrell
I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable. Warren Buffett
Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal... Alain de Botton
The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. E. B. White
One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others. There was a time when I felt lousy about my over-forty body, saw myself as too fat, too this, or too that. Yet I fantasized about finding a lover who would give me the gift of being loved as I am. It is silly, isn't it, that I would dream of someone else offering to me the acceptance and affirmation I was withholding from myself. This was a moment when the maxim... Bell Hooks
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "Absolute perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing to..."
Absolute perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing to add, but nothing to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It’s on the field, it’s on the pane, it’s in the sky — beauty; and I can’t get at it; I can’t have it — I, she seemed to add, with that little clutch of the hand which was so characteristic, who adore it so passionately, would give the whole world to possess it! Virginia Woolf
It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose. Thomas More
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good..."
Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one. George Bernard Shaw
Perhaps," you will add, grinning, "those who have never been slapped will also not understand" - thereby politely hinting that I, too, may have experienced a slap in my life, and am therefore speaking as a connoisseur. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ian Fleming quote: "Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract..."
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other. Ian Fleming
Thomas Jefferson quote: "The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to..."
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.--The Fruit Hunters Thomas Jefferson

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