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Plautus quote: "It well becomes a young man to be modest."
It well becomes a young man to be modest. Plautus
Bless their dear little hearts!" said Mrs. Mann with emotion, "they're as well as can be, the dears! Of course, except the two that died last week. Charles Dickens
Miyamoto Musashi quote: "You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour."
You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour. Miyamoto Musashi
Both money and art powdered as they are with the romance and poetry of the age are magic. Rather money is magic art is magik. Money is stagecraft slight of hand a bag of clever tricks. Art is a plexus of forces and influences that act upon the senses by means of practical yet permanently inexplicable secret links. Admittedly the line between the two can be as thin as a dime. Tom Robbins
Dusty Springfield quote: "Hell, have I been a hell-raiser!"
Hell, have I been a hell-raiser! Dusty Springfield
--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man... Thomas Hardy
I want England to understand - the rest of the world to understand - what is going on in America. And I want America to understand what is going on in the rest of the world. Usher Raymond
Albert Camus quote: "You help far more when you depict a person favorably than..."
You help far more when you depict a person favorably than instruct its weaknesses. Albert Camus
Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one. Robert Johnson
George Canning quote: "Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm."
Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm. George Canning
Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there. Thomas Hardy
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base. Gavin Newsom
For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the living room, and covered in tinsel, while the trees opened our presents."What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo."Nothing at all," he answered, "but it's an interesting possibility, don't you think? Norton Juster
If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help. Judy Collins
Miss Sarah Pocket, whom I now saw to be a little dry brown corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells... Charles Dickens