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I rented a house in Favignana, off the coast of Sicily, in the mid or late '90s. There was a revolving door of visiting friends and family - we played games, painted our faces, went swimming naked, cooked big meals, rode around on motorini, and had great cappuccinos.

~Amber Valletta

Topics: Around Big Coast Cooked Door Faces Family Friends Friends And Family Games Great Had House Late Meals Mid Naked Off Our Painted Played Revolving Rode Swimming Visiting

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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Grease Great King Other Slippery Sufficiently

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Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Faiths Great Principal World

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I am opposed to the wholesale giving away of the public lands to railroad corporations and other like institutions; at the same time, I believe that the government can encourage, by gifts, great national enterprises which are for the common weal and are so placed that they cannot properly expect local support.

~Ambrose Burnside

Topics: Am Away Believe Cannot Common Corporations Encourage Enterprises Expect Gifts Giving Government Great Institutions Lands Like Local National Opposed Other Placed Properly Public Railroad Same Same Time Support Time Which Wholesale I Am I Believe I Believe That

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The late brilliant actions in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas divided and weakened the enemy on the Rappahannock, and the auspicious moment seems to have arrived to strike a great and mortal blow at the Rebellion, and to gain that decisive victory which is due to the country.

~Ambrose Burnside

Topics: Actions Arkansas Arrived Blow Brilliant Carolina Country Decisive Divided Due Enemy Gain Great Late Moment Mortal North North Carolina Rebellion Seems Strike Tennessee Victory Weakened Which

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Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.

~Ameen Rihani

Topics: Age Also Artists Day Fancy Fashion Following Garments Great History Itself Like Mind Our Poets Present Priests Prophets Recognize Repeats Seasons Seldom Slant Span Temper True Truth Turn Us Year

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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

~Amelia Barr

Topics: Between Difference Great Meet People Rests Ships Them You

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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

~Amelia Barr

Topics: About Affections Answer Armies Birth Death Depths Domestic Empires Fall Great Joys Kings Life Marching Mistake Most Move Rise Them Tragedies

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This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.

~Amelie Mauresmo

Topics: Feels Great Special Tennis Trophy World

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I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

~Amelie Nothomb

Topics: Allowed Ambitious Because Become Being Child Dreamt Even Feel Great Great Thing Know Never Terribly Thing Would Writer

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