"Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be."
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"Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong."
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"Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern."
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"There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning."
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"Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel."
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"I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup."
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"The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation."
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"If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world."
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"I am thankful to all those who said no. It's because of them, I did it myself."
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"Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy."
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"There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it."
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"One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman."
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"My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel far away from you out here at all. I feel very near in my heart; and also I feel that the nearer I get to honour, the nearer I am to you."
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"We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes."
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"If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it."
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"'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'"
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"The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable."
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"Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell."
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"John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time."
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"Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant."
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