"The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?"
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"I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature."
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"Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions."
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"Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin."
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"Mosquitos ruin the safari."
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"Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people."
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"I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work."
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"The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin."
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"It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many."
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"The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins."
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"The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations."
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"There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins."
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"Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience."
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"It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life."
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"A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings."
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"The ruins of time build mansions in eternity."
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"Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?"
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"So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way."
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"Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum."
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"The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving."
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