"Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude!"

-- Washington Irving

#Brightness Quotes #Rays Quotes #Toil Quotes

“Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity”
“No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal”
“Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost totalâ€¦ Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself.”
“The AMA is urging the Federal Government not to classify ***** as a dangerous drug and do more research. That's what they said. It's a big story, yeah. Yeah, that request came not only from the AMA but also from KFC.”
“Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.”
“The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm of love, reticence and sophistication should go hand in hand, for one of the joys of life is discovery. Nowadays, instead of progressing from vous to tu, from Mister to Jim, it's 'darling' and 'come to my place' in the first hour.”
“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
“And yet to every bad there is a worse.”

Source : Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Woodlanders”, p.238, Xist Publishing

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