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"He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out."
"How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?"
"No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives."
"Sports was my entire life as long as I can remember."
"In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due time is replaced by one better but the fact remains and becomes fertile."
"There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear principle; but until that time comes he must work, if he would be of use, with men as they are. As long as the good in them overbalances the evil, let him work with them for the best that can be obtained."
"Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed."
"Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head."
"Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long."
"Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself."
"Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer."
"I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero."
"I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened."
"The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation."
"As long as there are annoying people in the world, I won't run out of material."
"As long as I have a good time, the audience usually has a good time."
"Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health"
"Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept off as long as possible."
"[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the] clergy will always keep them if they can. [They] will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a tow-rope."
"Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right."
