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Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The sunset of a great hope is like the sunset of the sun: with it, the splendor of our life fades away.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Do not speak of lost affection, affection is never in vain.

José Luís López Aranguren

José Luís López Aranguren

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What is today a heresy often becomes the orthodoxy of tomorrow.

José Luís López Aranguren

José Luís López Aranguren

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Moral is wielded when in opposition; politics, when power has been obtained.

José Luís López Aranguren

José Luís López Aranguren

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Spanish always knows everything. And if it doesn't know something, it says, 'We'll talk about this later'.

Santos López Pelegrín 'Abenamar'

Santos López Pelegrín 'Abenamar'

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The act of a man going around with a little animal with fangs or horn in tow is not of the human kind: it is of the animal kind.

Denis Lord

Denis Lord

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A father is not the one who gives life, that would be too easy, a father is the one who gives love.

George Horace Lorimer

George Horace Lorimer

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It's nice to have money and things that money can buy, but it's also nice to have the things that money can't buy.

James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell

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If youth is a flaw, it is a flaw from which we recover too soon.

James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell

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Blessed are those who have nothing to say, and who resist the temptation to say it.

James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell

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Democracy grants each man the right to be the oppressor of himself.

James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell

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The books are the bees that carry the pollen from one intelligence to another.