"When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep."

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Billy Sunday

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“And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.”
“I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.”
“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.”
“My wife wonders why all women do not seek anglers for husbands. She has come in contact with many in her life with me and she claims that they all have a sweetness in their nature which others lack.”
“I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.”
“Only soldiers and labouring men can appreciate how glorious it really is to lie late in bed in winter-time. When your life revolves around having to to be at work at seven o'clock in the morning you know everything about that ghastly lep up still half asleep and the rush to put your head under a tap of ice-cold water with the barbarous object of shocking yourself awake.”
“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”

Source : Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1830). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: With an Essay on His Language and Versification, an Introductory Discourse, Notes, and a Glossary by Tho. Tyrwhitt”, p.94
“Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.”

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