"A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet."

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Source : Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) (1838). “The poems of Richard Monckton Milnes”, p.100

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#Life Quotes #Lying Quotes #Men Quotes

“Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.”
“Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.”
“There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.”
“For tommorow belongs to those that prepare for it today.”
“No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.”
“Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I'm hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.”
“We find our power in the same place as our pain.”
“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.”

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