"Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141)."
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"As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it."
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"Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action."
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"No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within its bosom, stirred not at all, but lay in a motionless content, each in its own old station, shining on gloriously forever."
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"When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me."
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"If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry.""
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"Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead."
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"Never get out of bed before noon."
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"The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one."
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"I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life."
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"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."
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"To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes"
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"A fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'."
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"Millions of working, uninsured Americans go to bed every night worrying what will happen to them and their families if a major illness or injury strikes."
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"I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed."
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"God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only."
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"I can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know."
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"A book has to be easy to open and you don't have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me."
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"I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways."
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"Astrophysicists perfected navigation. We perfected all these things that matter to the power of nations manifest on the world stage. So we want to go into space. That's the new high ground, right? We care about multispectral imaging of things. Well, that's what reconnaissance wants to do. So our expertise has been in bed with national security needs forever. So maybe, secretly, that's why they keep us employed."
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