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I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

— Richard Burton

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This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

She can do everything…there’s nothing she can’t do...she looks after me so well. Thank God I’ve found her.’

The only thing in life is language. Not love. Not anything else.

Most people believe that when a dog howls near a house it forebodes death, for it is said a dog can distinguish the awful form of Azra'il, the Angel of Death.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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