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"Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy." »Amy Vanderbilt
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"Generally when there's a lot of smoke...there's just a whole lot more smoke." »George Foreman
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"What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 322. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever. A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree." »Diane Frolov
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"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all." »Ogden Nash
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"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing." »Abraham Lincoln
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"He who has more learning than goodness is like a tree with many branches and few roots, which the first wind throws down; whilst he whose works are greater than his knowledge is like a tree with many roots and fewer branches, which all the winds of heaven cannot uproot." »The Talmud
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"If i cannot smoke in heaven, then i shall not go." »Groucho Marx
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"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time." »Mark Twain
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"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke." »Lynda Barry
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"It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake." »Mark Twain
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"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this afternoon'" »John F. Kennedy
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"There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is Don't screw around, and don't smoke." »Edwina Currie
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"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"Maybe you're right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandad' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree' and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied, 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss" »Nikos Kazantzakis
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"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." »Tom Stoppard
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"Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life." »John Updike, Rabbit Redux
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"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet." »William Shakespeare, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.
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"Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade." »Persian Proverb
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"Friendship is like a sheltering tree." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm." »Publilius Syrus
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"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer
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"There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree." »Joyce Kilmer, "Trees" (poem), 1914
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"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it." »Charles Dickens
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