"The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air."

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Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.15

William Gilmore Simms

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“We all have to have more rigorous expectations of our kids in America.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was telling the truth. "It's just that I don't belong here." He gave her a meloncholy smile. "If it's any consolation, when I was growing up, I didn't feel like I belonged here, either. I dreamed about going to New York. But it's strange, because when I finally escaped this place, I ended up missing it more than I thought I would. There's something about the ocean that just calls to me.”
“A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.”

Source : John Lydgate (1975). “Early English Text Society: Extra series”
“Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.”
“One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.”
“Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.”
“Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side?”
“You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.”

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