"It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are."
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"One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well."
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"History: gossip well told."
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"Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well."
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"With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!"
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"Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices me wherever I am or whatever I do."
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"There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing."
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"Poetry must be as well written as prose."
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"The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past."
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"Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid."
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"Wealth unused might as well not exist."
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"It's sad when you see someone do really well and then you just don't hear about them anymore."
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"They wanna see me pick back up, well where'd I leave it at?"
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"The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected."
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"One must live well to know what living is."
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"Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man."
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"Death is something we really understand extremely well."
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"Once something is well-written, then everything else is gravy."
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"Well, what we know Is not what they tell us We're not ignorant, I mean it, And they just cannot touch us Through the powers of the Most-High We keep on surfacin' Thru the powers of the Most-High We keep on survivin'."
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"And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?"
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