"It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule."

-- Lord Chesterfield

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“The arctic loneliness of age.”

Source : Medical proverbs by F.H. Garrison, Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine October: 979 - 1005 (1928)
“A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.”
“This future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems to be possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it were, for something he has made himself.”
“There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.”
“Germany are a very difficult team to play... they have eleven internationals out there today.”
“Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.”
“Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.”
“The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone youâ€™d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.”

Source : Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.84, Hachette UK

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