"Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly."

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Source : Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.1400, Head of Zeus Ltd

Ellis Peters

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“I am surprised by what people expect of me.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“There's no point in working if I'm not involved and interested.”
“Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself.”
“Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.”
“This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.”
“Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.”
“I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they... find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there... What you see is what you get.”

Source : "Questions to Stella and Judd". Interview with Bruce Glaser, www.artnews.com. September 1966.
“Golf is very much like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.”

Source : Louise Suggs (1960). “Golf for Women”

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