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Beauty is in the Eye of the Be(er)holder.
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That was a fine effort Virginia, though I'm sure you gave the quote much more meaning than it inherently contains.
TDF has been quite lazy in quote selection for some time. I have a theory that it is randomly chosen from a shallow pool of sources by AI.
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Is it not better . . . to choose an intelligent, meaningful quote than one that is dimwitted and vapid?
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Churchmen in peace and quiet pray to Heaven for the welfare of the world, but we soldiers and knights carry into effect what they pray for...Thus are we God's ministers on earth and the arms by which his justice is done therein.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
As the Church Lady would say . . .
"Well, we like ourselves, don't we."
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He who chooseth our daily quotes . . . not so much. :-(
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Conversely, poor men occasionally have great relations and are not the least bit melancholy about it.
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Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Good point, George.
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As the viper, though it kills with it, does not deserve to be blamed for the poison it carries, as it is a gift of nature, neither do I deserve reproach for being beautiful.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
"Well, we like ourselves don't we."
- The Church Lady (SNL)
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He?
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Countless dictators and despots have engineered "revolutions" to extinguish democaracy, supplanting it with their own megalomaniacal reign.
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