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Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Quotes

But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: lawyer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 22, 1790 - September 9, 1870

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I don't like my voice, and I don't enjoy my singing voice; I do what I do to bring pleasure and diversion to the fans.

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I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.

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Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them.

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I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

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Michelle Yeoh

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Michael Moore

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I think what really people want is just a few things done really, really well. And if you think about ever day of your life, the things you really appreciate aren't the complicated things. They're the simple things that work just the way you expect them to.

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Don't build a bar for yourself. Build it for your customers. It's all about them: the walls, the finishes, the textures, the food, the beverages, literally everything has to be for them.

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Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.

Donald Miller

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