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“Brighter than Parian marble.”
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“Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.”
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“I'm a boy who doesn't want to grow up.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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“On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.”
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“I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.”
Source : Karen Essex (2010). “Dracula in Love”, p.309, Anchor
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“If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself.”
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“The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.”
Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.59, Reprint Services Corporation
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“Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.”
Source : John Campbell Shairp (2011). “Robert Burns”, p.1, Cambridge University Press
