“Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually, though needlessly, poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have.”
Henry David Thoreau, quoted in SmartMoney
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“You never think you’re the age you are, and, as long as you don’t look in the mirror, you aren’t.”
Frank Gehry, quoted in The New Yorker
“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, the most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.’’
George Bernard Shaw, quoted in the London Times
“There is no tyranny so despotic as that of public opinion among a free people.”
Journalist Donn Piatt, quoted in the Myrtle Beach, S.C., Sun News
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