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Charles Dickens quote: "I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the..."

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

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When we have sampled much and have wandered far and have seen how fleeting and sometimes superficial a lot of the world is, our gratitude grows for the privilege of being part of something we can count on—home and family and the loyalty of loved ones. We come to know what it means to be bound together by duty, by respect, by belonging. We learn that nothing can fully take the place of the blessed relationship of family life. Thomas S. Monson
The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. Peter Stuyvesant
I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet. Mangosuthu Buthelezi