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«Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Generosity,
Happiness,
Sharing
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«Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.»
Author: Elsa Schiaparelli
(Fashion designer)
| About:
Fashion
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«To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.»
«Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.»
«A good companion shortens the longest road.»
«If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
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«The woman who fasts and observes religious vows without the permission of her husband shortens his life, and goes to hell.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
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«I have often been asked, ''Do not people bore you?'' I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
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«Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
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