The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.
—Cher, our great philosopher
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Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
-Charles Baudelaire
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
-Auden
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You must never betray pure joy--the kind you were born and began with--either by hiding it or parading it in front of people's eyes; they don't want to be shown it.
--Eudora Welty
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As a 1st-yr teacher in a NY City h.s. larger than my hometown, I was blessed w/ hearing a lecture by W. H. Auden. His words about teaching poetry stayed with me. For starters, he explained why we shouldn't teach Wordsworth's "Daffodils"
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