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to be spent

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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. Charlotte Brontë

What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart... Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. Charlotte Brontë

The general character of our solution must be, therefore, that it withdraws from expenditure a proportion of the increased earnings. This is the only way, apart from shortages of goods or higher prices, by which we can secure a balance between money to be spent and goods to be bought. John Maynard Keynes

fraught, adj. Does every "I love you” deserve an "I love you too”? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover? If the answer to any of these is "No,” what do we do? David Levithan

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics. Imran Khan

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. George Eliot

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