The Rhyme In Your Slang

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"During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege."

— Victor Hugo, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"

(Notre Dame, Paris.)

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"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

— John Quincy Adams

(Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.)

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown."

— William Shakespeare, "Henry IV, Part 2"

(The White House, Washington, D.C.)

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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

— Mahatma Gandhi

(Mediterranean Sea off of Monte Carlo, Monaco.)

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"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."

— G.K. Chesterton

(Trooping of the Colour, London.)

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"I believe totally in a capitalist system; I only wish someone would try it."

— Frank Lloyd Wright

(Occupy London, St. Paul's cathedral, London.)

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"No one can save us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."

— Buddha

(Preston Parade on the North Sea, Seasalter, Kent, United Kingdom.)

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"If you're lucky enough to be Irish, then you're lucky enough."

— Irish proverb

(Molly Malone statue, Grafton Street, Dublin.)

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"Commuter trains are packed with voyeurs of a similar bent."

— Nigel Andrew 

(St. Pancras International, London.)

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"Give me but one hour of Scotland, let me see it ere I die." 

— William Edmundstoune Aytoun

(The Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Scotland.)

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"There are two sorts of romantics: those who love, and those who love the adventure of loving."

— Lesley Blanch

(St. Mark's Square, Venice, Italy.)

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"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."

— Thomas S. Szaz

(St. Jerome's monastery, Lisbon, Portugal.)

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"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim."

— Margaret Thatcher

(The London Eye.)

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"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"

— Ralph Wiggum

(Oxford University quad, Oxford, England)

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"Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease."

— Unknown

(Piccadilly Circus, London.)

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"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

— Twyla Tharp

(The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London.)

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"If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it."

— Marcus Aurelius

(The Foro Romana, Rome.)