"Ask, and it shall be given you."

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Origen

“The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.”
“Surviving a tough situation means staying in the fight and maintaining a warrior's mindset.”
“All that is called Destiny or Fate is none other than the result of our thoughtlessness and our mistrust of ourselves; we should know that all that is created on earth is created by its sole Master and Laborer -- Man.”
“You can make any meal into a sandwich, and any sandwich into a meal.”
“What, did you think," she asked, laughing as he struggled up the bank, "that I, a Gaulish maiden, could not swim?" "I did not think anything about it," Malchus said; "I saw you pushed in and followed without thinking at all." Although they imperfectly understood each other's words the meaning was clear; the girl put her hand on his shoulder and looked frankly up in his face. "I thank you," she said, "just the same as if you had saved my life. You meant to do so, and it was very good of you, a great chief of this army, to hazard your life for a Gaulish maiden. Clotilde will never forget.”

Source : G. A. Henty (2016). “The Young Carthaginian: A Story of the Times of Hannibal”, p.213, The Floating Press
“Into the statue that breathes, the soul of the sculptor is bidden.”

Source : Richard Realf, Richard Josiah Hinton (1898). “Poems”
“Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened - Man's forgiveness give and take!”
“You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but it's your brain, that three-pound lump of hamburger, that makes the final call.”

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