"This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn't say how far to separate them."
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"I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down."
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"I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America... He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on."
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"And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman."
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"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love."
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"Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies."
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"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."
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"A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such."
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"If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly."
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"This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he! An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth! And they will take it so; if not he's plain. These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends, Than twenty silly, ducking observants, That stretch their duty nicely."
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"The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them."
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"Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?"
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"GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true that questioning the table manners of others is rude. But to overthrow the accepted conventions of society, on the flimsy grounds that you have found them silly, inefficient and discomforting, is a dangerous step toward destroying civilization."
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"You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you."
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"A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever."
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"There is no sin except stupidity."
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"Don't think that I'm silly for liking it, I just happen to like the simple little things, and I love cats!"
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"It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own."
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"Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly."
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"I think [religion] is presumptuous and I think it is silly, because it makes you believe that you are less than what you can be. As long as you can blame everything on some unseen deity, you don’t ever have to be responsible for your own behavior."
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