"What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts...."

-- Robert E. Lee

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“When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.”
“My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.”
“In a state like Pennsylvania, the paradox is, to win, you have to get the conservative Democrats in the west, but you still have to do well with the collar-county moderates in the east. [Mitt] Romney did fine with the moderates, but not the conservative Democrats. Trump is doing well with the conservative Democrats. Now Trump has to seal the deal with the moderates in the east.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Most people go to college to get a job, and here I am sitting in class with a job, making exponentially more than whoever's teaching me, you know what I'm saying? At the end of the day, I wanted to finish what I started, and make my mom proud. A lot of people put a lot of hard work and investment to allow me to go to school, and for me not to finish would have been like a slap in the face to my family and those people.”

Source : Source: ca.complex.com
“I'm sorry to keep focusing on the New Yorker, but everybody who was growing up when Calvin [Trillin] and I were growing up wanted to be published in the New Yorker.”
“Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.”
“He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand.”

Source : Hilary McKay (2003). “Saffy's Angel”, Margaret K. McElderry Books
“John ain't been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.”

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