"Who needs a smile when a tear's so full of love?"
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"Tears unnumbered ye shall shed."
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"it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!"
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"It would seem that it was not in the interest of 'someone' for us to make progress. It was in 'someone's' interest that we be always at war, that we tear each other to pieces. Yes, I'm inclined to absolve the Pakistanis. How should they have behaved? Someone encouraged them to attack us, someone gave them weapons to attack us. And they attacked us."
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"If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations, magnify his peculiarities, inevitably tear him into parts, and, of course, patch him very clumsily together again. What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster."
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"A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others."
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"Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf."
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"Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction."
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"Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears."
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"Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will."
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"Remember now, Cheers, no tears."
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"Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out."
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"The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment."
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"Tears aren't a woman's only weapon."
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"If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow."
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"I try not to have expectations because they can tend to tear you apart. I expect to work as hard as I can possibly work and I expect to give every ounce of a hundred percent."
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"It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!"
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"It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands."
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"Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good."
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"Crying is you, plus tears"
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