"Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony."
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"God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves."
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"Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it."
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"There is something about video marketing that helps it stay apart from the other online marketing tactics. When done correctly, all you need is one video marketing campaign to build up highly targeted traffic for a really long time."
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"I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it."
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"I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car."
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"Can I say one other thing that`s very important? I`m indebted to Donald Trump for a long time, we`ve had this problem that people disliked government. And the health care bill has shown reminded people and Donald Trump has shown people there is something a lot worse than government. It`s not government. That as bad as they might have thought the government was on health care, it`s now created people that the absence of government healthcare is even worse."
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"Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat."
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"I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things."
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"The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community."
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"Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again."
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"Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms."
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"A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad."
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"Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind."
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"It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards."
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"By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts, and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government."
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"Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!"
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"To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long."
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"We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun."
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"Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!"
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