As a general rule, if anyone ever asks you to put stockings on a ninety-year old deceased Romanian woman with oedema, your answer should be no.
– Caitlin Doughty
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- In trees, monkeys rule;on land, lions rule;in the sky, eagles rule;in the waters, whales rule. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened. – Osamu Dazai
- For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. – TS Eliot
- A -˜white’ kid that asks too many questions is called *curious.* A -˜black’ kid that asks too many questions is called *forward.* – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- If a man asks me for my loyalty…I will give him my honesty.If a man asks me for my honesty…I will give him my loyalty! – John Boyd
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- Stupid Romanian bloodsucker. He was lucky I hadn’t bestowed another exalted scar on his imperial body. – Beth Fantaskey
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- It’s not the tailor that makes the man. – Romanian proverb
- The queen who mended her stockings in prison must have looked every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- …The fact that it’s black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on men. – Daphne du Maurier
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- Rest and peace should not be left until you’re deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
- I had no tears to shed nor a prayer for the deceased… There is no hope for the hopeless. – Nadge Richards
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- The past is like a deceased person. It has to be remembered. – Jake Gallardo
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- She asks me how my heart is,and I say, ‘beating.’That’s never the answer you want, and I am sorry about that. – Darshana Suresh
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- As a general rule the one who is not easily accessible is more valuable. – Amit Kalantri
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- Not one had ever passed judgement on my cheap handbag to my face. But then, this is a reserved country. – Caitlin Moran
- Fifty year old wealthy man resents twenty five year old middle class man, without recalling that 25 years back even he was a poor man. – Amit Kalantri
- By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today’s time to do so. – Innocent Mwatsikesimbe