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• The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Expression, Experience, Aids

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.90, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.

  Mason Cooley

  Past, Looks, Body

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• In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.

  Mason Cooley

  Looks, Appearance, Glances

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• The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

  Mason Cooley

  Want, Novelty

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• We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Food, Believe, Names

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• Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Sky, Faces, Dies

  "Thirty Years: Being Poems New and Old" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("Magnus and Morna"), 1880.

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• The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, Degrees, Connections

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of learning, for mutual instruction. It is too awful and respectable a subject to become a familiar one.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mean, People, Religion

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.353, Oxford University Press

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• Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Husband, Wife, Firsts

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• If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.

  William J. Bernstein

  Investing, Return, Investment

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• Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.

  Publilius Syrus

  Vices, Pardon

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• If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Dark, Artist, Light

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• When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of domestic life more and more shadows have mingled, then ... and not till then, can the wife say of the husband, "He is worthy of love;" then, first, the husband say of the wife, "She blooms in imperishable beauty.

  Timothy Shay Arthur

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  Timothy Shay Arthur (1888). “The Wedding Guest: a Friend of the Bride and Bridegroom”

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• death ... so seldom happens nowadays in the awesome quiet of a familiar chamber. Most of us die violently, thanks to the advance of science and warfare. If by chance we are meant to end life in our beds, we are whisked like pox victims to the nearest hospital, where we are kept as alone and unaware as possible of the approach of disintegration.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Dying, Bed, Warfare

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• As I holed up in the City of Angels, I was also aware of a comforting feeling of anonymity. In the world's biggest third-class city I could pass unnoticed. I spoke the language. I was familiar with the currency. I could drink the water. I could almost breathe the air, late April air, compounded of interesting hydrocarbons.

  John D. MacDonald

  Angel, Air, Class

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• Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

  Livy

  Endurance, Bears

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXIII, section 3,

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• The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Literature, Variables, Speech

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• The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Musical, Welcome, Beloved

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• Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Clouds, Assuming

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, Graphic Arts Books

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• The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements of the farmshould be made familiar to every boy, and suitable industrial education should be furnished for every girl.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Girl, Education, Book

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• We pardon familiar vices.

  Seneca the Younger

  Vices, Pardon

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• Each moment is new. We have never lived it before and will never live it again. It is familiar and unfamiliar at the same time.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Time, Moments, Unfamiliar

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• There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Discovery, Firsts, Encounters

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• Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all.

  Cathy Davidson

  Japan, Looks, West

  Cathy N. Davidson (2006). “36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan”, p.13, Duke University Press

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• Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.

  Charles Handy

  Teaching, Long, May

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