"Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended."

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Source : Colley Cibber (1761). “The double gallant: or, The sick lady's cure”, p.7

Colley Cibber

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“Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.”
“Since the journey is a metaphor - the most ambiguous and seductive of metaphors, we tell ourselves - it can also be born of immobility. There is no need to drag our bodies around so much, all dressed up. It's hot, there are flies, diseases. It is enough to close our eyes, seated on a chair in the shade, to float on the waves of imagination. Isn't that what books are there for?”

Source : Dacia Maraini, Dick Kitto, Elspeth Spottiswood (1999). “The Silent Duchess”, p.258, Feminist Press at CUNY
“It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.”
“Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murderâ€”immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouseâ€”humanity.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (1989). “The Torture Garden”, Re-Search Publications
“In the end, money should serve something greater than just money. It should serve you, your family, the people you want to touch.”
“Affirmations are like seed planted in soil. Poor soil, poor growth. Rich soil, abundant growth. The more you choose to think thoughts that make you feel good, the quicker the affirmations work.”
“Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.”
“This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .”

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