"Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure."

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Source : Amelia B. Edwards (2011). “Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers”, p.193, Cambridge University Press

Amelia B. Edwards

#Literature Quotes #Leisure Quotes #Fruit Quotes

“If you're a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits.”

Source : "Daily Show", www.mrc.org. January 18, 2012.
“I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.”
“Our small ears never had such a workout as on the Fourth of July, hearing not only our own bursting crackers but also those of our friends, and often the boom of homemade cannon shot off by daring boys of 16 years, ready to lose a hand if it blew up.”
“Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.”
“Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.”
“If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.”
“I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.”
“If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.”

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