"The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling."
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"The key to spontaneous wit is an unburdened mind."
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"The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things."
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"O sweet spontaneous earth"
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"The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end."
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"I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort."
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"Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy."
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"The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers"
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"Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness."
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"Fine conduct is always spontaneous."
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"I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed."
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"It's always exciting when you can go into a mode where you can be both spontaneous and choreographed. Sort of in control and out of control at the same time."
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"Playing Arnie was fun because everything I did was spontaneous."
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"Find Eloy. Smack his head into a wall, dance on his guts... I'd get creative. Spontaneous like."
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