"Wine is only sweet to happy men."
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"All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet."
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"The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"
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"A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer."
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"You can never be too old or too young to be attracted to someone. I still remember my first crush back in grade school."
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"Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto you. Though you hide yourself behind the unattractive disguise of the irritable, the exacting, the unreasonable, may I still recognize you, and say: "Jesus, my patient, how sweet it is to serve you."
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"With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms."
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"Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world."
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"hither,hither, from thy home,airy sprite, i bid thee come! born of roses, fed on dew, charms and potions canst thow brew? bring me here, with elfin speed,the fragment philter witch i need; make it sweet and swift and stong, spirite amserw now my song hither i come, from my airy home, afar silver moon. take magic spell, and use it well. or its powers will vanish soon!"
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"A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal."
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"So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb."
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"O sweet spontaneous earth"
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"O sweet spontaneous earth how often has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty thou answereth them only with spring."
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"love is a deeper season than reason; my sweet one"
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"The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loaf seems, so perfumed, as home-made bread used all to be before the war."
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"When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit."
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"the sweet heavy smell grew very much less. For though the whole fire had not been put out, a good bit of it had, and what remained smelled very largely of burnt Marsh-wiggle, which is not at all an enchanting smell."
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"A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food."
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"[My kids] are, sweet, kind, funny, smart, respectful people, and they treat everybody with respect. That's not just the biases of a parent. We feel pretty good when we hear back from friends, cause they still have sleepovers and they go to other folks houses and when the parents say, oh you know, Malia, she's just so sweet, or Sasha helped to pick up the dishes."
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"George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement."
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