"It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe."

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Anne Bronte

#Hero Quotes #Arms Quotes #Foe Quotes

“Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.”

Source : Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”
“No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.”
“In Victor's life, monotony and boredom had nothing to do with one another. He repeated his repertoire so often that even from miles away, Clara could follow his conversation with anyone who happened to be sitting next to him.”
“In a best-selling book, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs (reprinted nine times by 1935), a pair of consumer-advocate authors complained that American citizens had become test animals for chemical industries that were indifferent to their customers' well-being. The government, they added bitterly, was complicit.”

Source : Deborah Blum (2011). “The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York”, p.118, Penguin
“I am certainly very pro-Europe.”
“Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.”
“Somebody's sexual preference is, like, who cares?”
“Sun and moon have no light left, earth is dark; Our women's world is sunk so deep, who can help us? Jewelry sold to pay this trip across the seas, Cut off from my family I leave my native land. Unbinding my feet I clean out a thousand years of poison, With heated heart arouse all women's spirits. Alas, this delicate kerchief here Is half stained with blood, and half with tears.”

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