"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."

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Source : Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

Austin Phelps

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“We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow.”

Source : Iris Origo (2011). “War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944”, p.101, Allison & Busby
“Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.”
“People call me crazy and a madman. Even 'Tasmanian Devil.' I'd rather be called the 'Tasmanian Angel.'”
“I use as high SPF as I can get, and I live under a hat like a mushroom all the time. Someone said they're worried about their kids getting older and doing drugs, and I got this look of horror on my face and thought, 'What if my girls don't wear hats?' But at 13 months old, they could say 'hat.”
“As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the reasons my mother didn't want me to go to school too soon. Because I would be beaten to a pulp, you know, if I walked down the street and said there was no such thing as gravity.”
“I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay”
“You can see that there is scarcely an observable fact unworthy of mention in your notes, and yet you could easily spend more time scribbling than watching, and that would defeat the purpose. So be selective, don't be compulsive, and enjoy your note-taking.”

Source : Robert Michael Pyle, Roger Tory Peterson Institute (1992). “Handbook for Butterfly Watchers”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results.”

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