"Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order."

-- Hugh Blair

#Thinking Quotes #Order Quotes #Accuracy Quotes

“The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.”
“As a man, there's a part of me that feels I should still be going out and doing a proper day's work.”
“My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.”
“Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.”
“Patience is the art of hoping.”

Source : Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”
“I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.”

Source : George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.327, Dell
“When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.”

Source : Song: The Dream Shatterer, Album: Endangered Species, 2001
“I worked in a paper factory the week after I left school. I had loads of paper cuts all over my hands and the pay was dreadful. On my third day I was like, 'Can I leave early? I've got an audition for Coronation Street.' They said yes and I never went back.”

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