"I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the dewdrops of summer dawns. The feathery leaves of yarrow are thick with silver rime and dry thistle heads rise like goblets plated with silver catching the sun."

-- Edwin Way Teale

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“High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.”
“Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
“There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury.”
“It's well known that actors are lousy writers.”

Source : "Memories of mischief". Interview with Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2005.
“I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was desperate to fit in and spoke English all the time. Trouble was, in my household it was a no-no to speak English because somehow it is disrespectful to call parents and grandparents "you" - impersonal pronouns are offensive in Vietnamese.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.”
“And I had to get out of hating range.”
“To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.”

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.228

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